John Tyndall (1820-93) was an influential Irish geologist who became fascinated by mountaineering after a scientific expedition to Switzerland in 1856. He joined the Alpine Club in 1858 and achieved the summit of the Matterhorn in 1868 - a feat which led to a peak on the Italian side of the massif being named after him. He also climbed Mont Blanc three times. A writer of scientific texts who was widely praised for the quality of his prose, Tyndall made clear that in this work, published in 1860, he had 'not attempted to mix Narrative and Science'. He divides his account into two parts: his…mehr
John Tyndall (1820-93) was an influential Irish geologist who became fascinated by mountaineering after a scientific expedition to Switzerland in 1856. He joined the Alpine Club in 1858 and achieved the summit of the Matterhorn in 1868 - a feat which led to a peak on the Italian side of the massif being named after him. He also climbed Mont Blanc three times. A writer of scientific texts who was widely praised for the quality of his prose, Tyndall made clear that in this work, published in 1860, he had 'not attempted to mix Narrative and Science'. He divides his account into two parts: his Alpine adventures and observations, and the scientific explanations about the origins and structural aspects of glaciers. Both sections include explanatory illustrations. This book, a classic text of Alpine exploration, offers a unique account of Tyndall's mountaineering expeditions and the science that inspired them.
John Tyndall FRS was an important 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific prominence developed in the 1850s as a result of his research into diamagnetism. Later, he produced discoveries in the fields of infrared radiation and air physical characteristics, establishing the link between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859. Tyndall also authored over a dozen science books that introduced a large number of people to cutting-edge 19th-century experimental physics. From 1853 to 1887, he taught physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1868. Tyndall was born at Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, Ireland. His father was a local police constable, descended from Gloucestershire emigrants who arrived in southeast Ireland around 1670. Tyndall attended the local schools (Ballinabranna Primary School) in County Carlow until his late teens and was most likely an assistant teacher near the conclusion of his tenure there. Technical drawing and mathematics were particularly important subjects in school, with some applications to land surveying. In his late teens, he was engaged as a draftsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in 1839, and he later went to the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain in 1842.
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Preface Part I: 1. Introductory 2. Expedition of 1856: the Oberland 3. The Tyrol 4. Expedition of 1857: the Lake of Geneva 5. Chamouni and the Montanvert 6. The Mer de Glace 7. Measurements commenced 8. Alone upon the glacier 9. The Jardin 10. Lightning and rain 11. First ascent of Mont Blanc, 1857 12. Life at the Montanvert 13. Expedition of 1858 14. Passage of the Strahleck 15. Ancient glaciers in the valley of Hasli 16. Ascent of the Finsteraarhorn 17. Subsequent days at the Aeggischhorn 18. First ascent of Monte Rosa 19. The Rothe Kumm 20. The Görner Grat and the Riffelhorn 21. Fog on the Riffelberg 22. Second ascent of Monte Rosa, 1858 23. The Furgge glacier 24. Need of observations on Alpine temperature 25. Second ascent of Mont Blanc, 1858 26. Hostility of chief guide 27. Winter expedition to the Mer de Glace, 1859 Part II: 1. Light and heat 2. Radiant heat 3. Qualities of heat 4. Origin of glaciers 5. Whiteness of snow 6. Colour of water and ice 7. Colours of the sky 8. The moraines 9. Glacier motion 10. Motion of the Mer de Glace 11. Ice wall at the Tacui 12. Winter motion of the Mer de Glace 13. Cause of glacier motion - De Saussure's theory 14. Rendu's theory 15. Anticipations of Rendu confirmed by Agassiz and Forbes 16. Forbes's theory 17. The crevasses 18. Further considerations on viscosity 19. Heat and work 20. Papers presented to the Royal Society by Professor Forbes in 1846 21. Thomson's theory 22. Pressure theory 23. Regelation 24. Crystallization and internal liquefaction 25. The moulins 26. Dirt-bands of the Mer de Glace 27. Veined structure of glaciers 28. The veined structure and differential motion 29. The ripple theory of the veined structure 30. The veined structure and pressure 31. The veined structure and the liquefaction of ice by pressure 32. White ice-seams of the Glacier Du Géant 33. Glacier Du Géant in a state of longitudinal compression Summary Appendix Index.
Preface Part I: 1. Introductory 2. Expedition of 1856: the Oberland 3. The Tyrol 4. Expedition of 1857: the Lake of Geneva 5. Chamouni and the Montanvert 6. The Mer de Glace 7. Measurements commenced 8. Alone upon the glacier 9. The Jardin 10. Lightning and rain 11. First ascent of Mont Blanc, 1857 12. Life at the Montanvert 13. Expedition of 1858 14. Passage of the Strahleck 15. Ancient glaciers in the valley of Hasli 16. Ascent of the Finsteraarhorn 17. Subsequent days at the Aeggischhorn 18. First ascent of Monte Rosa 19. The Rothe Kumm 20. The Görner Grat and the Riffelhorn 21. Fog on the Riffelberg 22. Second ascent of Monte Rosa, 1858 23. The Furgge glacier 24. Need of observations on Alpine temperature 25. Second ascent of Mont Blanc, 1858 26. Hostility of chief guide 27. Winter expedition to the Mer de Glace, 1859 Part II: 1. Light and heat 2. Radiant heat 3. Qualities of heat 4. Origin of glaciers 5. Whiteness of snow 6. Colour of water and ice 7. Colours of the sky 8. The moraines 9. Glacier motion 10. Motion of the Mer de Glace 11. Ice wall at the Tacui 12. Winter motion of the Mer de Glace 13. Cause of glacier motion - De Saussure's theory 14. Rendu's theory 15. Anticipations of Rendu confirmed by Agassiz and Forbes 16. Forbes's theory 17. The crevasses 18. Further considerations on viscosity 19. Heat and work 20. Papers presented to the Royal Society by Professor Forbes in 1846 21. Thomson's theory 22. Pressure theory 23. Regelation 24. Crystallization and internal liquefaction 25. The moulins 26. Dirt-bands of the Mer de Glace 27. Veined structure of glaciers 28. The veined structure and differential motion 29. The ripple theory of the veined structure 30. The veined structure and pressure 31. The veined structure and the liquefaction of ice by pressure 32. White ice-seams of the Glacier Du Géant 33. Glacier Du Géant in a state of longitudinal compression Summary Appendix Index.
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