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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY
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| By: |
Michael Faraday |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108053572 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108053570 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
11 October, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences |
| Pages: |
596 |
| Description: |
Originally published between 1839 and 1855, this three-volume collection represents a comprehensive record of Michael Faraday's landmark work on electricity. |
| Synopsis: |
Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) began to attend Sir Humphrey Davy's chemistry lectures purely out of interest. Although he soon recognised that science would be his vocation, there was no defined career path to follow, and when he applied to Davy for work he was gently told to 'attend to the bookbinding'. It was only after a laboratory explosion in which Davy partially lost his sight that Faraday was taken on as his amanuensis. From this difficult beginning stemmed perhaps the most famous scientific career of the nineteenth century. This three-volume collection of Faraday's papers provides a comprehensive record of a key branch of his work. Volume 1, reissued here in a second edition of 1849, covers his early work in electricity and magnetism, including papers on lightning, electric fish, and notes on the elaborate and often beautiful experiments conducted to investigate whether magnetism could produce electricity. |
| Illustrations: |
9 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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