Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
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The ghost of John Tyndall solves a mystery (probably)
How a Twitter conversation with the ghost of John Tyndall (friend of Charles Darwin), helped identify the likely source of a morbid inscription in one of his books.
Old friends, New Fragments, old inscriptions
In which I find an enigmatic inscription written inside an old book.
Transcribing Tyndall
Michael Barton, FCD has a new blog.