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John Tyndall

Born

in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, Ireland

August 02, 1820

Died

December 04, 1893

Genre

Science, Physics

Influences

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John Tyndall FRS (2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air. Tyndall also published more than a dozen science books which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.

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	Faraday as a Discoverer 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1868 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1873 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of science for unscientific people: a series of detached essays, lectures, and reviews. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1874 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hours Of Exercise In The Alps really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1872 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Address Delivered Before The British Association Assembled At Belfast really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1875 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light and Electricity 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1896 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of science, V. 1-2 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. Volume 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.”
― John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer

tags: discovery, faraday, light, magnetism, michael-faraday, science

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“Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.”
― John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer

tags: discipline, faraday, michael-faraday, nature, passion, science

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“To Nature nothing can be added; from Nature nothing can be taken away; the sum of her energies is constant, and the utmost man can do in the pursuit of physical truth, or in the applications of physical knowledge, is to shift the constituents of the never-varying total. The law of conservation rigidly excludes both creation and annihilation. Waves may change to ripples, and ripples to waves; magnitude may be substituted for number, and number for magnitude; asteroids may aggregate to suns, suns may resolve themselves into florae and faunae, and floras and faunas melt in air: the flux of power is eternally the same. It rolls in music through the ages, and all terrestrial energy—the manifestations of life as well as the display of phenomena—are but the modulations of its rhythm.”
― John Tyndall

tags: conservation-of-energy, energy, eternal, knowledge, life, naturalism, nature, phisical-truth, truth

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