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Silvanus P. Thompson. Michael Faraday, His Life and Work
Michael Faraday, His Life and Work
Table of Contents
PREFACE
MICHAEL FARADAY
CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE, TRAINING, AND TRAVEL
CHAPTER II. LIFE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
CHAPTER III. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES: FIRST PERIOD
CHAPTER IV. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES: SECOND PERIOD
CHAPTER V. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES: THIRD PERIOD
CHAPTER VI. MIDDLE AND LATER LIFE
CHAPTER VII. VIEWS ON THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE AND ON EDUCATION
CHAPTER VIII. RELIGIOUS VIEWS
Footnote
INDEX
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Silvanus P. Thompson
Published by Good Press, 2022
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From Rome Faraday wrote to his mother a long chatty letter summarising his travels, and sending messages of kindly remembrance to his old master Riebau and others. He tells how, in spite of political troubles, Sir Humphry Davy’s high name has procured them free admission everywhere, and how they have just heard that Paris has been taken by the Allied troops.
At Rome they witness unconvinced some attempts of Morichini to impart magnetism to steel needles by the solar rays. They pass the Colosseum by moonlight, making an early morning start across the Campagna, on the road to Naples, with an armed guard for fear of brigands. Twice, in the middle of May, they ascend Vesuvius, the second time during a partial eruption rendered all the more vivid by the lateness of the hour—half-past seven—at which the edge of the crater was reached. In June they visit Terni, and note the nearly circular rainbow visible in the spray of the cataract; and so across the Apennines to Milan.
