Faraday rediscovered : essays on the life and work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867

Michael Faraday is known to schoolchildren and teachers as a master of laboratory experiment, to engineers as afounder of electrical technology, to physicists as the originator ofelectromagnetic field theory and to chemists for discoveries such as benzeneand the laws of electrochemistry. His discoveries and original theoreticalinsights made him an enormously influential figure of enduring interest tohistorians and students of science. This book, the first major work on Faradayfor over twenty years, contains eleven original essays by leading Faradayscholars. They reflect the wide range of his influences and interests, and givenew insights into the man, his life and his science Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Faraday Rediscovered....Pages 1-14 Faraday: Image of the Man and the Collector....Pages 15-32 Davy and Faraday: Fathers and Sons....Pages 33-49 Faraday — From Servant to Savant: The Institutional Context....Pages 51-68 Reading the Book of Nature: The Relation Between Faraday’s Religion and his Science....Pages 69-82 Faraday and Ampère: A Critical Dialogue....Pages 83-104 ‘In Nature’s School’: Faraday as an Experimentalist....Pages 105-136 ‘The Optical Mode of Investigation’: Light and Matter in Faraday’s Natural Philosophy....Pages 137-162 Faraday, Wheatstone and Electrical Engineering....Pages 163-174 Faraday’s Field Concept....Pages 175-187 Faraday’s Discovery of Induction: A Cognitive Approach....Pages 189-209 Learning from Experience....Pages 211-227 Back Matter....Pages 229-258