Author:John Tyndall

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John Tyndall (1820–1893)

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FRS, British physicist

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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"

John Tyndall

Works

• 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 1st edition, vol 1, 6th edition, 1879, vol 2, 6th edition, vol 1, 1896 "New Fragments", vol 2, 1896 "New Fragments", vol 3, 1896 "New Fragments"
• 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 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

• "Action of Dark Radiations", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 1, June 1872
• "Science and Religion", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 2, November 1872
• "Some Observations on Niagara", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, June 1873
• "The Glaciers and their Investigators", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, October 1873
• "Rendu and his Editors", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, August 1874
• "Inaugural Address Before the British Association", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, October 1874
• "Crystalline and Molecular Forces", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, January 1875
• "Reply to the Critics of the Belfast Address", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, February 1875
• "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, March 1875
• "The Atmosphere in Relation to Fog-Signaling II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 6, April 1875
• "On the Motions of Sound", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, August 1875
• "Martineau and Materialism", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, December 1875
• "The Controversy on Acoustical Research", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, February 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 8, March 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, May 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity III", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, June 1876
• "Lessons in Electricity IV", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, July 1876
• "Fermentation and its Bearings on the Phenomena of Disease", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, December 1876
• "A Combat with an Infective Atmosphere", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, April 1877
• "Spontaneous Generation I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, February 1878
• "Spontaneous Generation II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, March 1878
• "Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 13, July 1878
• "Professor Tyndall Before the English Copyright Commission", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, November 1878
• "Virchow and Evolution", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, January 1879
• "The Electric Light", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14, March 1879
• "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, June 1880
• "Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, July 1880
• "The Sabbath I", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, December 1880
• "The Sabbath II", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, January 1881
• "Action of Radiant Heat on Gaseous Matter", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 19, May 1881
• "Sound and Radiant Heat", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 20, March 1882
• "Progress of the Germ Theory of Disease", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21, August 1882
• "On Radiation", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 23, August 1883
• "On Rainbows", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 24, March 1884
• "My Schools and Schoolmasters", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 26, January 1885
• "Pasteur's Researches in Germ-Life", in Popular Science Monthly Volume 27, May 1885

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

• “Faraday, Michael,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Works about Tyndall

• Lives of the electricians by William T Jeans 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 Volume 2, November 1872
• "John Tyndall", a biographical portrait by John McLure Hamilton from Men I Have Painted (1921).
• “Tyndall, John,” in Dictionary of National Biography, 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.