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    Did Eunice Foote discover the 'greenhouse effect'?
    Roland Jackson
    • Oct 25, 2021
    • 8 min

    Did Eunice Foote discover the 'greenhouse effect'?

    The story of the American Eunice Foote and the discovery of the greenhouse effect has become a contested issue in the history of climate...
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    The saga of Eunice Foote and John Tyndall
    Roland Jackson
    • Dec 22, 2019
    • 9 min

    The saga of Eunice Foote and John Tyndall

    Who knew what about Eunice Foote’s 1856 discovery of the absorption of heat by carbon dioxide and water vapour? UPDATE 13 February 2019:...
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    Who discovered the greenhouse effect?
    Roland Jackson
    • May 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    Who discovered the greenhouse effect?

    160 years ago, on 18 May 1859, the Irish physicist John Tyndall wrote in his journal ‘the subject is completely in my hands’. This is no...
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    Elton Hall
    Roland Jackson
    • Dec 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Elton Hall

    Elton Hall, home of the Proby family since 1660, lies in the Cambridgeshire countryside about 8 miles from Peterborough. It is regularly...
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    Mystery of the missing Marburg journals
    Roland Jackson
    • Jul 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Mystery of the missing Marburg journals

    Just occasionally, there is a moment in an archive when the gasps are audible. Such was the case on 16 January 2017, when Charlotte New,...
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    Serendipitous discovery of a novel
    Roland Jackson
    • Mar 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Serendipitous discovery of a novel

    Juliet Pollock has become one of my favourite women. John Tyndall admired her enormously, and wrote dozens of letters to her. He sent her...
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    Paley's Works
    Roland Jackson
    • Jan 22, 2018
    • 5 min

    Paley's Works

    In the early nineteenth century, no-one who had not studied the works of William Paley could consider themselves to have had a proper...
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    John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 2
    Roland Jackson
    • Jan 5, 2018
    • 5 min

    John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 2

    A dispute over water vapour John Tyndall (c.1822–1893), Irish physicist, mountaineer, and public intellectual, is best known in...
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    John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 1
    Roland Jackson
    • Dec 31, 2017
    • 2 min

    John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 1

    ‘...those demoralised and brutalised sirens...’ In my forthcoming biography of John Tyndall, the atmosphere plays a major role. A foghorn...
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