John Tyndall, Atmospheric Researcher. Part 2: The Water Vapour Dispute with Gustav Magnus
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Picturing Meteorology | Dec. 31, 2017 This guest post is by Roland Jackson. Part 1 explained Tyndall’s work on carbon dioxide, and fog horns. Jackson’s biography, The Ascent of John Tyndall, will be published by Oxford University Press on March 22. You can follow him on Twitter @Roland_Jackson or @ProfTyndall. John Tyndall’s apparatus for measuring the heat absorption of gases. The frontispiece of Tyndall’s book Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat (London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1872). Scanned from the personal collection of Roland Jackson. John Tyndall’s apparatus for measuring the heat absorption of gases. …