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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [5], viii-xix, [2], 2-338, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Orange cloth with black decorations on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several in-text black and white diagrams. With a small folded brochure advertising "The Club" from Springfield, Mass. Dated June 29, 1898, the brochure lists the members of its organization from inception to what was then the present day. Julius H. Appleton, a noted business man and philanthropist, is the first member listed in 1873. Oxford DNB, W.H. Brock, "Tyndall, John, (1820-1893)". John Tyndall was an effective science communicator. He helped spread the knowledge of germ theory and atomism to the educated public, and challenged the reigning religious explanations of the world that were popular during the Victorian era. His series of experiments demonstrated how one could kill… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1881. First collected edition of the author's extensive researches into disease, germ theory, and spontaneous generation (which he strenuously rejects). The essays had originally been published in various scientific journals, most notably in the Philosophical Transactions, in the 1860s and 1870s. John Tyndall (1820-1893), a leading experimental physicist and colleague of Faraday, remains known for his research into the relationship between climate and atmospheric vapours. In this respect, he is credited with establishing the experimental basis for the greenhouse effect, as the first to prove quantitatively that atmospheric gases absorbed and emitted radiant heat and thus raised the Earth's temperature. The present work illustrates a lesser-studied aspect of his scientific work. This copy comes from the collection of Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008) and bears his bookplate on the front pastedown. Knight, a historian, collector, and self-acknowledged eccentric, worked… Read More