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- Title
James Croll – bicentenary and biography, from janitor to genius.
- Authors
EDWARDS, Kevin J.
- Abstract
The institution provided Croll with a magnificent scientific library and a paper on electromagnetism (Croll 1861) represented his first foray into conventional science, soon followed by contributions on such topics as chemistry, heat, tidal waves, the Earth's rotation and lunar motion, climate change and glaciology. Half a decade on, James Croll retired owing to ill health and after a lifetime of money worries he died shortly before his 70 SP th sp birthday having two weeks previously seen a copy of his final book, I The philosophical basis of evolution i (Croll 1890). Croll was one of four sons, two of whom died young, and his childhood was characterised by a pain around the fontanelle and a rudimentary schooling because, he thought, his parents were "judiciously opposed to too early mental work" (Croll 1887, p. 11). The marine sedimentary record was able to deliver a test of astronomical theories as outlined by both Croll and later by Milankovitch, a century after the publication of Croll's monumental 1875 book I Climate and time in their geological relations i .
- Subjects
GEOPHYSICS; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; EARTH sciences; JANITORS
- Publication
Earth & Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2021, Vol 112, Issue 3/4, p159
- ISSN
1755-6910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1755691021000335