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Book SynopsisThis book brings together works published between 1846 and 1859 by James D. Forbes (180968) and John Tyndall (182093), both experienced alpinists as well as glaciologists. Their views on the motion of glaciers were disparate, and a scientific quarrel over primacy of discoveries continued even after their deaths.
Table of ContentsPart I. Containing Experiments on the Flow of Plastic Bodies, and Observations on the Phenomena of Lava Streams: 1. Plastic models; 2. Analogy of glaciers to lava streams James D. Forbes; Part II. An Attempt to Establish by Observation the Plasticity of Glacier Ice: 3. De Saussure's theory; 4. Modifications of De Saussure's theory; 5. Experiments at Chamouni on the plasticity of ice James D. Forbes; Part III: 6. On the motion of glaciers of the second order; 7. On the annual motion of glaciers, and on the influence of seasons; 8. Summary of the evidence adduced in favour of the theory James D. Forbes; Part IV. On the Physical Phenomena of Glaciers: 9. Observations on the Mer de Glace (1858) John Tyndall; 10. On the veined structure of glaciers, with observations upon white ice-seams, air-bubbles and dirt-bands, and remarks upon glacier theories (1859) John Tyndall; 11. On the structure and motion of glaciers (1857) John Tyndall and Thomas H. Huxley.
