This essay examines the physicist John Tyndall’s journal writing in the mid-nineteenth century and focuses on how Tyndall used his journal during a series of transitions that occurred when he was a young man: when he went from being a surveyor to a public school instructor and then from a Ph.D. student and budding experimenter in Germany to Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in London. As well as providing insight into these various transitions, the journal more importantly shows how Tyndall developed a particular ethical conception of self, based on his readings of Carlyle, Emerson, and Fichte, and how that sense of self shaped—and was shaped by—his early experimental practices. Thus, the article is a case study in the development of a particular scientific self that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, whose novel claim to authority was based on a particular fusion of the ethical and the epistemological.

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科学自我的技术：约翰廷德尔和他的杂志

本文考察了物理学家约翰·廷德尔 (John Tyndall) 在 19 世纪中叶的日记写作，并重点介绍了廷德尔在他年轻时发生的一系列转变中如何使用他的日记：当他从一名测量员成为一名公立学校教师和然后从博士学位 德国的学生和初出茅庐的实验者，到伦敦皇家学院的自然哲学教授。除了提供对这些不同转变的洞察之外，该杂志更重要的是展示了廷德尔如何根据他对卡莱尔、爱默生和费希特的阅读，发展出一种特定的自我伦理概念，以及这种自我感是如何塑造——并被——塑造的——他早期的实验实践。因此，这篇文章是对 19 世纪中叶出现的特定科学自我发展的案例研究，