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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
John Tyndall
Born: August 2, 1820
Died: December 4, 1893 (aged 73)
Bio: John Tyndall was a prominent 19th-century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
Known for:
- Faraday as a Discoverer (1868)
- The Glaciers of the Alps (1860)
- Six Lectures on Light (1873)
- Heat. A Mode of Motion (1868)
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