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Faraday: The Life (Paperback)

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Paperback 496 Pages
Published: 01/05/2009
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A major biography of Michael Faraday (1791–1867), one of the giants of 19th century science and discoverer of electricity who was at the centre of an extraordinary scientific renaissance in London.

Faraday’s life was truly inspirational. Son of a Yorkshire blacksmith who moved to London in 1789, he was a self-made, self-educated man whose public life was underpinned by his devotion to a minor Christian sect (the Sandemanians) and to his wife. He was also a fine writer and brilliant lecturer.

This book is a passionate exploration of his life, work and times (he was a pioneering scientific all-rounder who also experimented with electromagnetism, techniques for preserving meat and fish, optical glass, the safety lamp, and the identification of iodine as a new element).

It will also tell the story of the dawn of the modern scientific age and interweave Faraday’s life with the groundbreaking work of the Royal Institution and other early scientists like Humphrey Davey, Charles Babbage, John Herschel and Mary Somerville.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007329342
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 125 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

‘Faraday could not have had a better biographer…comprehensive, lucid, unfailingly intelligent’ Financial Times‘This lively new biography throws a different, highly illuminating beam on the forces that charged Faraday’s imagination’ Jenny Uglow, Sunday Times‘Full of rich and fascinating material Hamilton’s biography humanises Faraday, and sets him convincingly in the context of Romanticism’ Lisa Jardine, The Times‘This exemplary study adds new depth to our understanding of a brilliant and complex man’ The Economist‘A delightful and well-illustrated account. Few historians of science write as well as Hamilton’ Sunday Telegraph

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