Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice, and Glaciers

Informationen zum Autor John Tyndall FRS was an important 19th-century Irish physicist. His scientific prominence developed in the 1850s as a result of his research into diamagnetism. Later, he produced discoveries in the fields of infrared radiation and air physical characteristics, establishing the link between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859. Tyndall also authored over a dozen science books that introduced a large number of people to cutting-edge 19th-century experimental physics. From 1853 to 1887, he taught physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1868. Tyndall was born at Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, Ireland. His father was a local police constable, descended from Gloucestershire emigrants who arrived in southeast Ireland around 1670. Tyndall attended the local schools (Ballinabranna Primary School) in County Carlow until his late teens and was most likely an assistant teacher near the conclusion of his tenure there. Technical drawing and mathematics were particularly important subjects in school, with some applications to land surveying. In his late teens, he was engaged as a draftsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland in 1839, and he later went to the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain in 1842. Klappentext A scientific account, published in 1872, of the earth's water system, written by a leading physicist and glacial scientist. Zusammenfassung John Tyndall (1820–93) was an Irish physicist who was fascinated by glaciers. He was also well-known for his accessible scientific books, and in this 1872 work, written for a non-specialist audience, he gives a clear and concise explanation of the major features of the earth's water system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1, 2. Clouds, rains, and rivers; 3. The waves of light; 4. The waves of heat which produce the vapour of our atmosphere and melt our glaciers; 5. Experiments to prove the foregoing statements; 6. Oceanic distillation; 7. Tropical rains; 8. Mountain condensers; 9. Architecture of snow; 10. Atomic poles; 11. Architecture of lake ice; 12. The source of the Aveiron; 13. The Mer de Glace and its sources; 14. Ice-cascade and snows of the Col du Géant; 15. Questioning the glaciers; 16. Branches and medial moraines of the Mer de Glace from the cleft station; 17. The Talèfre and the Jardin; 18. First questions regarding glacier motion; 19. The motion of glaciers; 20. Precise measurements of Agassiz and Forbes; 21. The theodolite and its use; 22. Motion of the Mer de Glace; 23. Unequal motion of the two sides of the Mer de Glace; 24. Suggestion of a new likeness of glacier motion to river motion; 25. New law of glacier motion; 26. Motion of axis of Mer de Glace; 27. Motion of tributary glaciers; 28. Motion of top and bottom of glacier; 29. Lateral compression of a glacier; 30. Longitudinal compression of a glacier; 31. Sliding and flowing; 32. Winter on the Mer de Glace; 33. Winter motion of the Mer de Glace; 34. Motion of the Grindelwald and Aletsch Glacier; 35. Motion of Morteratsch Glacier; 36. Birth of a crevasse; 37. Icicles; 38. The Bergschrund; 39. Transverse crevasses; 40. Marginal crevasses; 41. Longitudinal crevasses; 42. Crevasses in relation to curvature of glacier; 43. Moraine-ridges, glacier tables, and sand cones; 44. The glacier mills or moulins; 45. The changes of volume of water by heat and cold; 46. Consequences flowing from the foregoing properties of water, correction of errors; 47. The molecular mechanism of water-congelation; 48. The dirt bands of the Mer de Glace; 49. Sea-ice and icebergs; 50. The Aeggischhorn, the Märgelin See and its icebergs; 51. The Bel Alp; 52. The Riffelberg and Görner Glacier; 53. Ancient glaciers of Switzerland; 54. Erratic blocks; 55. Ancient glaciers of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; 56. The glacier epoch; 57. Glacial theories; 58. Dilatation and sliding theories; 59. Plastic t...

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• Authors: John Tyndall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108037839
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03783-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries