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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13 - The Correspondence, June 1872-September 1873 (Hardcover)
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 13 - The Correspondence, June 1872-September 1873 (Hardcover)
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The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of
John Tyndall document the period from June 1, 1872, to September
28, 1873, much of which was consumed by Tyndall’s lecture tour of
the United States. We meet him in the midst of the Ayrton affair,
which saw Tyndall coming to the defense of his friend and fellow X
Club member Joseph Dalton Hooker against the First Commissioner of
Works, Acton Smee Ayrton, in an acrimonious dispute over the
governance of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tyndall’s tour of
the United States was a rousing success by many measures, but he
was not long on American shores before his well-documented
skepticism of the efficacy of prayer stoked the waspish ire of the
faithful. Tyndall’s return to England in mid-February 1873 saw
him begin preparations for his 1874 Belfast Address, when he
accepted the presidency of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science and articulated a defense of materialism
that scandalized many of his contemporaries. As we leave him in
September 1873, Tyndall is engaged in sharp-elbowed jostling with
Scottish physicist Peter Guthrie Tait in the pages of Nature over
James David Forbes, whose theory of glacial motion Tait had
defended against Tyndall’s attacks, in a scientific disagreement
that evolved into a personal one. Amid the tumult of controversy,
though, these letters reveal a man of science riding high on
widespread esteem, wielding the influence it brought him with
gusto, and moving with ease through the rarefied social and
intellectual circles into which he had climbed.
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