John Tyndall - John Tyndall's Books

John Tyndall's Books

  • The Glaciers of the Alps (470 pages) (1860)
  • Heat as a Mode of Motion (550 pages) (1863; revised later editions)
  • On Radiation: One Lecture (40 pages) (1865)
  • Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures (350 pages) (1867; revised later editions)
  • Faraday as a Discoverer (180 pages) (1868)
  • Natural Philosophy in Easy Lessons (180 pages) (1869) (a book intended for use in secondary schools)
  • Three Scientific Addresses by Prof. John Tyndall (75 pages) (1870)
  • Notes of a Course of Nine Lectures on Light (80 pages) (1870)
  • Notes of a Course of Seven Lectures on Electrical Phenomena and Theories (50 pages) (1870)
  • Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action (380 pages) (1870) (a compilation of 1850s research reports)
  • Hours of Exercise in the Alps (450 pages) (1871)
  • Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews (over 500 pages) (1871; expanded later editions)
  • The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers (200 pages) (1872)
  • Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat (450 pages) (1872) (a compilation of 1860s research reports)
  • Six Lectures on Light (290 pages) (1873)
  • Lessons in Electricity at the Royal Institution (100 pages) (1876) (intended for secondary school students)
  • Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in relation to Putrefaction and Infection (360 pages) (1881)
  • New Fragments (500 pages) (1892) (miscellaneous essays for a broad audience)

All of the above books can be freely downloaded at Archive.org.
Nearly all of them are in print and can be bought new.

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