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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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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