Michael Faraday (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108070096)

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 Acad mie 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).

Author: John Hall Gladstone
ISBN-10: 1108070094
ISBN-13: 9781108070096
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d