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Jonathan Parry: John Tyndall’s Ascent, 21 March 2019
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer and Public Intellectual
by Roland Jackson.
Oxford, 556 pp., £25, March 2018,978 0 19 878895 9 Show More
by Roland Jackson.
Oxford, 556 pp., £25, March 2018,
“... inspiration was Thomas Carlyle, along with transcendental idealist philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Carlyle was Tyndall’s supporter at his wedding in 1876, Tyndall a pallbearer at Carlyle’s funeral in 1881.) To labour towards higher knowledge wasn’t exactly self-denial in this conception, for the prize was to be a ... ”