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Faraday Rediscovered

Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791–1867

  • Textbook
  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. David Gooding

    1. School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Bath, Bath, Avon, England

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  2. Frank A. J. L. James

    1. Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology, The Royal Institution, London, England

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Faraday Rediscovered

    • David Gooding, Frank A. J. L. James
    Pages 1-14

  3. Faraday: Image of the Man and the Collector

    • Gertrude M. Prescott
    Pages 15-32

  4. Davy and Faraday: Fathers and Sons

    • David M. Knight
    Pages 33-49

  5. Faraday — From Servant to Savant: The Institutional Context

    • Sophie Forgan
    Pages 51-68

  6. Reading the Book of Nature: The Relation Between Faraday’s Religion and his Science

    • Geoffrey N. Cantor
    Pages 69-82

  7. Faraday and Ampère: A Critical Dialogue

    • L. Pearce Williams
    Pages 83-104

  8. ‘In Nature’s School’: Faraday as an Experimentalist

    • David Gooding
    Pages 105-136

  9. ‘The Optical Mode of Investigation’: Light and Matter in Faraday’s Natural Philosophy

    • Frank A. J. L. James
    Pages 137-162

  10. Faraday, Wheatstone and Electrical Engineering

    • Brian Bowers
    Pages 163-174

  11. Faraday’s Field Concept

    • Nancy J. Nersessian
    Pages 175-187

  12. Faraday’s Discovery of Induction: A Cognitive Approach

    • Ryan D. Tweney
    Pages 189-209

  13. Learning from Experience

    • Elspeth Crawford
    Pages 211-227

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-258
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Bath, Bath, Avon, England

    David Gooding

  • Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology, The Royal Institution, London, England

    Frank A. J. L. James

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