Tyndall, Draper, and “Eastern” Religions

Newspaper cartoon from 1875 depicting Draper wearing Eastern costume

By Bernard Lightman When John Tyndall, well known physicist and superintendent of the prestigious Royal Institution, delivered his “Belfast Address” in 1874 as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he touched off a storm of controversy that lasted for several years.  The lecture was a tour de force, covering the entire […]