{"product_id":"new-fragments-paperback-9781108038447","title":"New Fragments (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108038447","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Fragments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1893, Tyndall's engaging potpourri of essays features religious philosophy, scientific discoveries, biographies, personal recollections and Alpine mountaineering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Tyndall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108038447, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBorn in Leighlinbridge in Ireland, John Tyndall (1820–93) was a brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist and gifted science educator. He worked initially as a draughtsman, then spent a year teaching at an English school before attending the University of Marburg to study physics and chemistry. Tyndall carried out important research on magnetism, light and bacteriology. Among his many significant achievements, he demonstrated the greenhouse effect in Earth's atmospheric gases using absorption spectroscopy. He was a skilled and entertaining educator and as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution he gave many public lectures and demonstrations of science. In this engaging potpourri of essays published in 1893, Tyndall's prose enlivens subjects as diverse as the life of Louis Pasteur, observing the Sabbath, the prevention of phthisis (tuberculosis), personal experiences of Alpine mountaineering, and the science of rainbows.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The Sabbath\u003cbr\u003e 2. Goethe's 'Farbenlehre'\u003cbr\u003e 3. Atoms, molecules, and ether waves\u003cbr\u003e 4. Count Rumford\u003cbr\u003e 5. Louis Pasteur, his life and labours\u003cbr\u003e 6. The rainbow and its congeners\u003cbr\u003e 7. Address delivered at the Birbeck Institution on October 22, 1884\u003cbr\u003e 8. Thomas Young\u003cbr\u003e 9. Life in the Alps\u003cbr\u003e 10. About common water\u003cbr\u003e 11. Personal recollections of Thomas Carlyle\u003cbr\u003e 12. On unveiling the statue of Thomas Carlyle\u003cbr\u003e 13. On the origin, propagation, and prevention of phthisis\u003cbr\u003e 14. Old Alpine jottings\u003cbr\u003e 15. A morning on Alp Lusgen.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266056016152,"sku":"9781108038447","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108038447i.jpg?v=1696746361","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-fragments-paperback-9781108038447","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}