edited by Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
Cloth: 978-1-84893-463-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8164-0 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6640-1
Library of Congress Classification Q127.G4A37 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.4109034

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life and the universe. Contributors focus on the way Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and scientific journals and challenge previously held assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.