Richard England

Richard England is a professor of philosophy and Dean of the Pine Honors College at Eastern Illinois University. With Bernard Lightman and Catherine Marshall, he edited the Papers of the Metaphysical Society (2015) as well as a volume of essays about them (2019). His current projects focus on science and the Bible in the nineteenth century, and on technology and distraction in twenty-first century higher education.

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 15

The Correspondence, November 1875-December 1877

Edited By Richard England, Tanya O'Sullivan

The fifteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 466 letters covering the period from November 1875 to December 1877. Tyndall was by now an established man of science with a far-reaching reputation. The most significant work he undertook in this period involved his experiments on spontaneous generation and his consulting for Trinity House on lighthouse illuminations and sound-signaling. Alongside these projects, he married Louisa Hamilton in a small ceremony in London on February 29, 1876. This event offers a brief respite from the intense scientific and technical communications that dominate his life in the mid-1870s, and subsequent letters reveal his newfound domestic happiness.