Michael Faraday

A short 1872 work relating the life and research of a scientific pioneer, giving a friend's insights into Faraday's character.

John Hall Gladstone (Author)

9781108070096, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

190 pages
22.8 x 14.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg

Encouraged to share his memories of Michael Faraday (1791–1867), John Hall Gladstone (1827–1902) published in 1872 this short work about his late friend's life and career. Faraday's successor as Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, Gladstone discusses how Faraday approached science, and the value of his discoveries. Offering informed insights into Faraday's character, Gladstone includes a number of extracts from personal letters. The work also includes a translation of part of the eulogy given by Jean-Baptiste Dumas at the Académie des Sciences, as well as an anonymous poem honouring Faraday and published in Punch shortly after his death. An appendix lists the numerous learned societies to which Faraday belonged. Also reissued in this series are The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870), compiled by Henry Bence Jones, and John Tyndall's Faraday as a Discoverer (1868).

Preface
1. The story of his life
2. Study of his character
3. Fruits of his experience
4. His method of working
5. The value of his discoveries
Supplementary portraits
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Physics [PH]