The Poetry of John Tyndall

John Tyndall (c.1822-1893) is best known as a leading natural philosopher and trenchant public intellectual of the Victorian age. He discovered the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, explained why the sky is blue, and spoke and wrote controversially on the relationship between science and reli...

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Other Authors: Jackson, Roland (Editor), Jackson, Nicola (Editor), Brown, Daniel (Editor)
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Published: London UCL Press 2020
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