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Faraday4484

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 July 1864
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4119-21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4487

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 August 1864
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3139

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[13 November 1864]
Source of text:
RI 305 (C: 529-30); draft 4pp RS:HS 17.394b (C: 24.66)
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on paper on luminous and obscure radiation, particularly on extra spectral rays, incandescence of platinum, and experiment using transcalescence of iodine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3327

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.398a (C: RI 534)
Summary:

Asks JH to be a shareholder in venture to publish new weekly scientific journal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[21 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.398b (C: 24.69; C: RI 535)
Summary:

Wishes luck but expresses inability to help with new science journal [see JT's 1864-11-18].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3542

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[16 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.396 (C: RI 532 & RS:HS 24.68))
Summary:

Surprised that JT cannot obtain heat spots [see JT's 1864-11-14]. Describes glasses and lenses used.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3563

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393b (C: 24.48; C: RI 524-7)
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on papers on scientific history and molecular physics, particularly on a magnetic experiment and on dynamical efficiency of coal relative to motion theory of light and heat. Comments on nature of heat, 'vis viva.' Deplores laxity with which physicists use and confuse terms 'force,' 'motion,' and 'energy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3565

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.394a (C: RI 528)
Summary:

Regrets 'stupidity' of Italian post office, which lost note sent to JH suggesting reprinting of passage from Treatise Astr. of 1833 on operations of sun in second edition of JT's book. Also wants to publish JT's 'extremely philosophical views' on muscle contraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3617

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.395 (C: RI 531)
Summary:

Is not 'at liberty' to speak of experiments on change of refrangibility of 'extra-red' rays. Discusses other experiments on extra-red regions, having used various prisms but not obtaining JH's results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3634

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.397 (C: RI 533)
Summary:

JT does not have 'luxury' of using sunshine; uses electric light. Perhaps this adds to inability to obtain heat spots [see JH's 1864-11-16].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2060

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/503, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2061

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
2nd, January, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3852-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2062

From:
Joseph Gill
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 84-91, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2063

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/223, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2064

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
16th. January 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/481, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2065

From:
Gustav Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19ten Jan. 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2066

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 25th 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/481, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2067

From:
Thomas Sterry Hunt
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
February 1, 1864
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 236-7, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2068

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/103, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2069

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1864 February 3
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/38; MS JT/1/TYP/1/28, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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