Books in the The Correspondence of John Tyndall series

The 318 letters in this volume reveal a great deal about Tyndall's personality, the development of his career, and his role in attempting to better establish science as a respectable and professional enterprise.

The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall's emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant to his pseudonymous authorship of an open letter to the prime minister, Robert Peel, protesting the pay and conditions on the English Survey in August 1843.

The 329 letters in this volume represent a period of immense transition in John Tyndall's life.

Volume 5 contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his mid-thirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophy since September 1853.

Offers a behind-the-scenes view of nineteenth-century publishing processes, the practices and challenges of diamagnetic research, the application procedures for university positions, the use of patronage in establishing a scientific career, and the often anxious and weary-worn personality of our ambitious protagonist, John Tyndall.