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Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791â1867) 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.

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15. On the character and direction of the electric force of the Gymnotus; 16. On the source of power in the voltaic pile; 17. The exciting chemical force affected by temperature; 18. On the electricity evolved by the friction of water and steam against other bodies.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 10/11/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108053587, 978-1108053587
      ISBN10: 1108053580
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally apprenticed to a bookbinder, Michael Faraday (1791â1867) 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.

      Table of Contents
      15. On the character and direction of the electric force of the Gymnotus; 16. On the source of power in the voltaic pile; 17. The exciting chemical force affected by temperature; 18. On the electricity evolved by the friction of water and steam against other bodies.

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