About the Book
John Tyndall was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His correspondents read like a `who’s who’ of international science and include: Charles Babbage, Louis Pasteur and Bertrand Russell. Published serially with two volumes per year, this scholarly edition will ultimately present over 7,000 of his letters.
Table of Contents:
Full list of correspondents Academie der Naturforscher, Emile Acollas, H Mary Adair, James Adams, L Agassiz, George Biddell Osmund Airy, Mary Carlysle Aitkin, Albany Institute, Henry Allen, Margaret Allen, Robin Allen, Appalachian Mountain Club, D Appleton & Co., Roberto Ardigo, Argyll, Fred Arrow, Charles Babbage, Henry P Babbage, John Bacon, F Baedeker, Auguste Balmat, L Bahlsen, Mrs M A Baker, William Baker, Pasquale Balesnieri, Hermine Ballia, B K Bamatter, G F Barker, C A Barlow, Mrs M A Baker, William Baker, Pasquale Balesnieri, Hermine Ballia, B K Bamatter, G F Barker, C A Barlow, Harry Barnett, W F Barrett, Luigi Basso, C Bastian, J J Battler, J Beck, Bergeret, G Berthold, Besson, James B Bevington, S Bezold, Giuseppe Bianconi, Mariano Bichi, Margaret Birkbeck, [Blunsphol], Gerald Blunt, D C Bohn, T G Bonney, Boreas, Boutigny, Henry Bowie, S Bradford, J A Brashear, Jan Breda, [S H] Brereton, David Brewster, J M Bromeis, [F Brohart], E Brucke, Alexander Buchan, W P Buchan, Robert Bunsen, Siegfried Burgi, Ellen Busk, George Busk, John Butterfield, Charles Buxton, [T Fowell] Buxton, S Cadet, C Cardonez, John Caird, Silvio Calloni, Stanislas Cannigraro, G Cantonin, Cantron, Mary Carlyle, T[homas] Carlyle, W L Cattell, [Chaisemartin], Ciobelli, John Clausius, Rudolf Clausius, Emma Closs, Club Alpino, Ferdinand Chon, Elizabeth Colling, [J] Edwin Conery, Moncure D Conway, Harry Whiteside Cook, John D Cook, Conrad W Cooke, J P Cooke Jr., G Cornet, A Cornu, [B W H] Coutts, Henry Coxwell, Marcel Croullebois, A Crova, Richard Curtis, Pedro d'Alacantra, W Dalgleish, Charles d'Almeida, James D Dana, L [Daruntankey], John E Davies, George Day, H Debus, R P Deherain, N De Khanikof, Augustus de la Rive, Lucien de la Rive, William de la Rive, Warren de la Rue, Emile de Laveleye, J Delsanla, A de Meritens, Emilio Ruir de Salazar, C Despretz, Henry Dessevieu, Sainteclair Deville, James Dewar, De Colnet, H W Dove, J Drysdale, E du Bois-Reymond, Rene du Bois-Reymond, J Duboscq, J Duckworth, Charles Dufour, T H Duke, J B Dumas, Lord Dunraven, [A F M] Duppa, Durr, John Eaton, G Edlund, Mary A Egerton, [Philip] Egerton, W Eliot, Grace A Ellis, W Elsasser, R W Emmerson, Elizabeth Emsley, [G Ernst], J Escher, William L Faber, A Fairbanks, Michael Faraday, Farrer, L Fave, Alponse Favre, Conrad Fetz, E L Fischer, Albert Fleming, H Folmer, Edward [Forbes], George Forbes, James David Forbes, M Foster, Felix Foucon, B Fracte, Edward Frankland, F Frohschamer, John Fryer, George Gabriel, Genealogical Society, Gerling, W Ginty, Felix Giordano, T Gosset, Emile Goubert, Gilbert Govi, D J Grailich, F J Granger, Asa Gray, C Gridley, M Guardy, William A Guy, E Haas, John Haas, Julius Haast, Hachette Library, W [H] Haidinger, J Hall, D H Hamilton, H A Hammond, F V Hawkins, [Arnaud] Helland, Anna Helmholtz, Hermann Helmholtz, Helres, Chadwyck Henly, Joseph Henry, J S Henslow, G Hermann, Alexander Stewart Herschel, John Frederick William Herschel, Julia Herschel, M B Herschel, Hessel, Henry Hill, Anna M Hirst, H C M Hirst, Lilly Hirst , Thomas Archer Hirst, Jabez Hogg, Frances H Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker, W Hopkins, William Huber, Augusta Huth, Nettie Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley, Inhoff, A Irving, George Jackson, W Jackson, Raoul Jagnaux, T[homas] F Jamieson, [Mrs] E Jamin, J Jamin, William Jardine, Edward L Jellinck, Thomas E Jenkins, Geraldine E Jewsbury, Edith Bence Jones, Henry Bence Jones, M Bence Jones, Olivia (Livy) Bence Jones, L Joubert, James P Joule, Charles A Joy, B Kaplan, R G H Kean, J Kenward, G Kirchhoff, H Knoblauch, Koch, Kranse, George Krebs, Otto Krieg, Kriessling, Lang, Simon P Laurie, W E H Lecky, Emil Lehmann, C E Austen Leigh, L'Electricite Societe Lyonnaise Anonyme, H Le Poer Wynne, [J P] Lesley, Susan Lesley, Hugo Leupold, H Lewkowitsch, I M Leyfer, F A Lirug, J Lissajour, G D Living, Francis Lloyd, Oliver Lodge, W M Logeman, Lorentz, L Lortet, J Louis, Eduardo Lozario, Amy H Lubbock, H H Lubbock, Harriet Lubbock, John Lubbock, Charles Lyell, Mary E Lyell, Rosamond Lyell, Theodore Lyman, Edith Lytton, Lord Lytton, Rosian Lytton, R S MacCulloch, G Magnus, I K [Mainbernheim], [J] Manchester, H Mangou, Robert James Mann, Manton Marble, F Marcet, Charles Martins, David Masson, Henry W Matthews, C Matteucci, M F [Maury], Alfred M Mayer, Edward R Mayer, Emma Mayer, Julius Robert Mayer, John G McKendrick, Elizabeth McLaren, John McLaughlin, [El] Medini, F Melde, L B Menabre, T C Mendenhall, F Merrick, Lilly Methley, The Meuphrosine Manufacturing Company, F N M Moigno, G B Moore, N H Morison, Thomas Morris, Mousson, Mrs Murchison, R Murchison, H Mulberger, Diamella Muller, F Max Muller, J Muller, John Murray, Albert J Myer, N [Nadair], James Naiwyth, Vaughan R Nash, Lord [S] Neath, Theo S Negley, Simon Newcomb, M A Newell, H A Newton, J Nichol, P Niemeyer, Frederick North, Olga Novikoff, Emile Oddone, J R Oliver, R Owen, R Palmer, M Pape, Louis Pasteur, Emily Peel, Evelyn Peel, L Petit, Petitjean, John Phillips, W Buist Picken, Leon Pilatte, Gaston Plante, Joseph Plateau, Jean A Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Plucker, Poggendorff, Fred Pollock, Georgina Pollock, Juliet Pollock, W F Pollock, Pouchet, W R Pridie, Pugh, Joshua Pursey, R Quain, Vincente Vasquez Queigro, Quiegro, Georg Quincke, Radau, Andrew Ramsay, Frank W Rawlinson, Rayot, H Rescoe, G Owen, Regnault, Ferdinand Reich, Renaud, Rettig, Reusch, Albert Reville, Riehl, Riess, Charles Boyd Robertson, T R Robinson, William Robinson, Annette Roche, G F Rodwell, F Rogers, H E Roscoe and B Stewart, Joseph Rosthorn, Ruhmkorff, G W Rusden, Agatha Russell, Arthur Russell, Bertrand Russell, F Russell, Henry Russell, Count Henry Russell, Rollo Russel, Elizabeth Rutherford, A P Stanley, Edward Sabine, E Arthur Salmon, I Salzmann, Edouard Sarasin, F W Sargent, F Sauerwald, F Schotte, H W Schroeder van der Kelk, Schroeder, C Schulze, Emile Schwoerer, Emma Seiler, R Alvarez Sereix, Dino Serizio, V Serrin, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, K Shuttleworth, Silicated Carbon Filter Company, Nigoghos Simonian, Societe Hollandaise des Sciences, M Somerville, Clementine Soret, Louis Soret, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Spencer, Hugie Spottiswoode, Cyril Spottiswoode, L Spottiswoode, William Spottiswoode, Stachelscheid, Stegmann, Robert Stiles, H Stirling, Marie Stokes, B Studer, Sumner, James Joseph Sylvester, H Taffe, Joseph Tairraz, A Tennyson, Emily Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, B Thenard, James Thomson, William Thomson, Franz Tichelli, Tisdale, Gaston Tissandier, Arnaldo Trambusti, Tresling, R Tucker, Hector Tyndale, Thomas Hirst, M C Van Bibber, P Dan Der Burg, D F Van Der Pant, E Van Der Res, E Varlet, A Vialay, F Vieweg, Gauthier-Villars, J Violle, W Voight, Paul Volpicelli, Furst von Bismarck, Waertyn, George Wagner, Charles Walthem, Elie Wartmann, Watts, Hermann Weber, Nina Welby, Magaret Welch, T Spencer Wells, Weymersch Electric Battery Syndicate, Jacob Weyrauch, A D White, Walter White, J D Whitney, E Whymper, G Wiedemann, C Carus-Wilson, E S J Wilson, George Wilson, J Wilson, John W Wilson, S Wilson, G KWinter, Robert C Winthrop, Wroblewski, A Wynne, Frank Wynne, George Wynne, Lucy Wynne, Wyndham H Wynne, E L Youmans and [T or F] Zurcher
About the Author :
James Elwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at York University Toronto, where he studies the history of written science examinations and works on the history of the life sciences. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. Previous publications for Pickering & Chatto include Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences (2007) and Victorian Science and Literature (co-editor Volume 4) (2011). Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, where his research and teaching focuses on European intellectual history, nineteenth-century British history and the history of modern science. He is the series editor for Pickering & Chatto's series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century and is the editor of Pickering & Chatto's multi-volume collection, Victorian Science and Literature (2011, 2012). Michael S Reidy is Professor of History at Montana State University, where his research interests include the history of science and technology, the history of mountaineering and the history of oceans. He is Chair of the MSU Faculty Senate and was awarded the President's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012. He is the co-editor (with Bernard Lightman) of Pickering & Chatto's monograph The Age of Scientific Naturalism (2014). Geoffrey Cantor is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL. His research interests include the history of physics, science and religion, science in the nineteenth century periodical press, and biography and the role of psychobiography. He is on the editorial board of Pickering & Chatto's series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century and the editor of the multi-volume collection The Great Exhibition (Pickering & Chatto: 2013) Gowan Dawson is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester, where his research interests include the cultural history of Victorian science and nineteenth century print culture. He is the General Editor (with Bernard Lightman) of Pickering & Chatto's multi-volume collection Victorian Science and Literature (2011-12).
