Correspondence of John Tyndall Volume 5, The

ISBN-13: 9780822945321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 528 str.

William H. Brock;Geoffrey Cantor

Opis

Contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his mid-thirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophy since September 1853. Many of the letters printed here concern the lectures he delivered at the RI and other institutions and his attempt to establish his reputation as a researcher.