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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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