Abstract
The 1874 Belfast address was the most notorious, but not the first, occasion that the physicist John Tyndall used to present his mechanistic account of the natural world. Tyndall, the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, introduces his doctrine of ‘scientific materialism’ to his colleagues in the presidential address he gave to Section A, the Mathematics and Physics section, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) meeting at Norwich in 1868.1
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