Michael Faraday

The Royal Institution & Michael Faraday: a Personal View

had completed by 1826. With the exception of Chemical Manipulation, all of Faraday's books had previously appeared in the periodical literature or else were transcriptions of public lectures. Like many another text, it arose out of a course, this one given at the Royal Institution as William Jensen describes in his "Michael Faraday and the Art and Science of Chemical Manipulation". Faraday had ...

Michael Faraday and the Art and Science of Chemical Manipulation

Though a vast secondary literature now exists chronicling the life and achievements of Michael Faraday (figure 1), virtually none of it deals with his only full-length book, Chemical Manipulation, first published in 1827 (1), His numerous biographers mention only the fact of its publication, but tell us nothing of its contents and little of the circumstances surrounding its writing, Given the v...

The Continuity of Scientific Discovery and Its Communication: The Example of Michael Faraday

This paper documents the cognitive strategies that led to Faraday's first significant scientific discovery. For Faraday, discovery is essentially a matter seeing as, of substituting for the eye all possess the eye of analysis all scientists must develop. In the process of making his first significant discovery, Faraday learns to dismiss the magnetic attractions and repulsions he and others had ...

Solid State Ionics: from Michael Faraday to green energy—the European dimension

Solid State Ionics has its roots essentially in Europe. First foundations were laid by Michael Faraday who discovered the solid electrolytes Ag2S and PbF2 and coined terms such as cation and anion, electrode and electrolyte. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the main lines of development toward Solid State Ionics, pursued in Europe, concerned the linear laws of transport, structural analysi...

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