Did Eunice Foote discover the 'greenhouse effect'?
The story of the American Eunice Foote and the discovery of the greenhouse effect has become a contested issue in the history of climate...
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Roland Jackson
Dec 22, 20199 min read
The saga of Eunice Foote and John Tyndall
Who knew what about Eunice Foote’s 1856 discovery of the absorption of heat by carbon dioxide and water vapour? UPDATE 13 February 2019:...
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Roland Jackson
May 17, 20194 min read
Who discovered the greenhouse effect?
160 years ago, on 18 May 1859, the Irish physicist John Tyndall wrote in his journal ‘the subject is completely in my hands’. This is no...
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Roland Jackson
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Elton Hall
Elton Hall, home of the Proby family since 1660, lies in the Cambridgeshire countryside about 8 miles from Peterborough. It is regularly...
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Roland Jackson
Jul 5, 20183 min read
Mystery of the missing Marburg journals
Just occasionally, there is a moment in an archive when the gasps are audible. Such was the case on 16 January 2017, when Charlotte New,...
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Roland Jackson
Mar 8, 20182 min read
Serendipitous discovery of a novel
Juliet Pollock has become one of my favourite women. John Tyndall admired her enormously, and wrote dozens of letters to her. He sent her...
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Roland Jackson
Jan 22, 20185 min read
Paley's Works
In the early nineteenth century, no-one who had not studied the works of William Paley could consider themselves to have had a proper...
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Roland Jackson
Jan 5, 20185 min read
John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 2
A dispute over water vapour John Tyndall (c.1822–1893), Irish physicist, mountaineer, and public intellectual, is best known in...
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Roland Jackson
Dec 31, 20172 min read
John Tyndall and the atmosphere: part 1
‘...those demoralised and brutalised sirens...’ In my forthcoming biography of John Tyndall, the atmosphere plays a major role. A foghorn...
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