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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"John Tyndall"”.
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The poetics of mid-Victorian scientific materialism in the writings of John Tyndall, W.K. Clifford and others
… notably W. K. Clifford, a mathematician, and John Tyndall, a physicist and media-savvy ‘champion of science’. These engagements, and representations, were not merely on the level of ‘direct’ argumentation, however. A self-consciously allusive, even polyphonous tone was far from uncommon in the …
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Spontaneous generation in the 1870s: Victorian scientific naturalism and its relationship to medicine.
… the Victorian scientific naturalists, especially John Tyndall, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London. This thesis provides an understanding of and explanations for the beliefs surrounding the spontaneous generation debate, particularly with regard to Victorian scientific …