Faraday by James Hamilton
A biography of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), one of the giants of 19th century science and discoverer of electricity, who was at the centre of an extraordinary scientific renaissance in London. Faraday's life was truly inspirational. The son of a Yorkshire blacksmith who moved to London in 1789, he was a self-made, self-educated man whose public life was underpinned by his devotion to a minor Christian sect (the Sandemanians) and to his wife. He was also a fine writer and brilliant lecturer. This book is an exploration of his life, work and times (he was a pioneering scientific all-rounder who also experimented with electromagnetism, techniques for preserving meat and fish, optical glass, the safety lamp and the identification of iodine as a new element). It also tells the story of the dawn of the modern scientific age and interweave Faraday's life with the groundbreaking work of the Royal Institution and other early scientists like Humphrey Davey, Charles Babbage, John Herschel and Mary Somerville.
James Hamilton is an art historian, biographer and curator at the University of Birmingham who has recently been elected to the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, for the academic year 1998/9. He went to Manchester University in 1966 to read Mechanical Engineering but graduated with a History of Art degree. He organised and wrote the catalogue of the exhibition Turner and the Scientists at the Tate (1998), and his biography of Turner was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Award (1997).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002570824 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002570823 |
| Title | Faraday |
| Author | James Hamilton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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