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Experimental Researches in Electricity

Michael Faraday author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Oct '12

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Originally published between 1839 and 1855, this three-volume collection represents a comprehensive record of Michael Faraday's landmark work on electricity.

In the 1820s and 1830s, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) undertook crucial work in electromagnetism which forms the basis of modern electromagnetic technology. In the second of this three-volume collection of his papers, published between 1839 and 1855, he includes his defence against accusations that his ideas were stolen from a senior physicist.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 2, first published in 1844, includes essays on the illusions caused by lightning, the chemistry of a voltaic pile, and his defence against accusations that the idea behind his electromagnetic motor was stolen from another physicist.

ISBN: 9781108053587

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm

Weight: 410g

320 pages