Author:John Tyndall
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FRS; British physicist This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. T-l" |
Works[edit]
- Lectures on education, 1854 (contributor) (external scan)
- The glaciers of the Alps. 1861 (external scan)
- Mountaineering in 1861. Published 1862 (external scan)
- Heat as a Mode of Motion, 1863 (external scan)
- The correlation and conservation of forces: a series of expositions, 1865 (contributor) (external scan)
- On Radiation (Rede lecture, 1865)
- Sound. 1867 (external scan)
- The culture demanded by modern life, 1867 (contributor) (external scan)
- Faraday as a discoverer (1868) (external scan)
- Fragments of science for unscientific people, 1871 (external scan), (external scan), (external scan), (external scan), (external scan), (external scan)
- Electrical phenomena and theories, 1870 (short work) (external scan)
- Light, 1870 (external scan)
- Scientific addresses, 1870 (short work) (external scan)
- On the scientific use of the imagination, 1870 (external scan)
- Light and electricity, 1871 (external scan)
- Hours of exercise in the Alps, 1871 on Project Gutenberg, (external scan)
- Half Hours with Modern Scientists, 1871 (contributor) (external scan)
- Contributions to molecular physics in the domain of radiant heat, 1873 (external scan)
- Forms of Water, 1872 (external scan)
- Lectures on Light, 1873 (external scan)
- Advancement of Science, 1874 (external scan)
- The Prayer-gauge debate, 1876 (external scan)
- Putrefactive and infective organisms, 1877 (external scan)
- Fermentation, 1877 (short work) (external scan)
- Lessons in elecricity, 1877 (external scan)
- The floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection, 1881 (external scan)
- Louis Pasteur, 1886 (contributor) (external scan)
- Researches on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action, 1888 (external scan)
Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]
- "Action of Dark Radiations" in Popular Science Monthly, 1 (June 1872)
- "Science and Religion" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (November 1872)
- "Some Observations on Niagara" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (June 1873)
- "The Glaciers and their Investigators" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (October 1873)
- "Rendu and his Editors" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (August 1874)
- "Inaugural Address Before the British Association" in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (October 1874)
- "Crystalline and Molecular Forces" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (January 1875)
- "Reply to the Critics of the Belfast Address" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (February 1875)
- "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling I" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (March 1875)
- "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling II" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (April 1875)
- "On the Motions of Sound" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (August 1875)
- "Martineau and Materialism" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (December 1875)
- "The Controversy on Acoustical Research" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (February 1876)
- "Lessons in Electricity I" in Popular Science Monthly, 8 (March 1876)
- "Lessons in Electricity II" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (May 1876)
- "Lessons in Electricity III" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (June 1876)
- "Lessons in Electricity IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (July 1876)
- "Fermentation and its Bearings on the Phenomena of Disease" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (December 1876)
- "A Combat with an Infective Atmosphere" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (April 1877)
- "Spontaneous Generation I" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (February 1878)
- "Spontaneous Generation II" in Popular Science Monthly, 12 (March 1878)
- "Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (July 1878)
- "Professor Tyndall Before the English Copyright Commission" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (November 1878)
- "Virchow and Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (January 1879)
- "The Electric Light" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (March 1879)
- "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (June 1880)
- "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (July 1880)
- "The Sabbath I" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (December 1880)
- "The Sabbath II" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (January 1881)
- "Action of Radiant Heat on Gaseous Matter" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (May 1881)
- "Sound and Radiant Heat" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (March 1882)
- "Progress of the Germ Theory of Disease" in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (August 1882)
- "On Radiation" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (August 1883)
- "On Rainbows" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (March 1884)
- "My Schools and Schoolmasters" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (January 1885)
- "Pasteur's Researches in Germ-Life" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (May 1885)
Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography[edit]
- "Faraday, Michael," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
Works about Tyndall[edit]
- Lives of the electricians by William T. Jean, published 1887 (external scan)
- Essays, Historical, and Literary by John Fiske, 1902 https://archive.org/details/essayshistorica02fiskgoog external scan]
- "Sketch of Professor Tyndall" in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (November 1872)
- "Tyndall, John," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
- "John Tyndall", a biographical portrait by John McLure Hamilton from Men I Have Painted (1921).
- "Tyndall, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
- "Tyndall, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Tyndall, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Tyndall, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

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