Ɵ TYNDALL, J. Faraday as a Discoverer. Presentation copy. Longmans, Green and Co., 1868.

Ɵ TYNDALL, John. (1820 - 1893). Faraday as a Discoverer. Presentation copy. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (210 x 140mm), original brown cloth, bordered in blind, gilt lettering to spine, bookplate of Emily Belper to front pastedown, the author's presentation ink inscription to half title, 'To the Lady Belper/ presented by John Tyndall / March 1868', portrait plates after photographs, 171pp. First edition of the recently deceased Michael Faraday by the prominent 19th-century Irish physicist, John Tyndall, who succeeded him as superintendent at the Royal Institution. Lady Amelia (Emily) Belper, wife of Edward Strutt, a longstanding M.P. for the Liberal Party, and later elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Tyndall's initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859. (1)

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