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Michael Faraday : physics and faith
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ISBN: 0198027842 1429462116 9780198027843 0195117638 9780195117639 9781429462112 0190283556 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.


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Michael Faraday, father of electronics
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ISBN: 0585282307 9780585282305 0836118642 9780836118643 0836134796 9780836134797 0836197518 Year: 1978 Publisher: Scottdale, Pa. Herald Press

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Faraday as a natural philosopher
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ISBN: 0226010465 Year: 1971 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press

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Exploratory Experiments : Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics
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ISBN: 0822981378 9780822981374 9780822944508 0822944502 Year: 2016 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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The nineteenth century was a formative period for electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Ørsted's groundbreaking discovery of the interaction between electricity and magnetism in 1820 inspired a wave of research, led to the science of electrodynamics, and resulted in the development of electromagnetic theory. Remarkably, in response, André-Marie Ampère and Michael Faraday developed two incompatible, competing theories. Although their approaches and conceptual frameworks were fundamentally different, together their work launched a technological revolution-laying the foundation for our modern scientific understanding of electricity-and one of the most important debates in physics, between electrodynamic action-at-a-distance and field theories. In this foundational study, Friedrich Steinle compares the influential work of Ampère and Faraday to reveal the prominent role of exploratory experimentation in the development of science. While this exploratory phase was responsible for decisive conceptual innovations, it has yet to be examined in such great detail. Focusing on Ampère's and Faraday's research practices, reconstructed from previously unknown archival materials, including laboratory notes, diaries, letters, and interactions with instrument makers, this book considers both the historic and epistemological basis of exploratory experimentation and its importance to scientific development.


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Why science? : to know, to understand, and to rely on results
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ISBN: 1281603651 9786613784346 9814397342 9789814397346 9781281603654 9789814397339 9814397334 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific,

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This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized - at least in the Western world - as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual


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Michael Faraday's mental exercises : an artisan essay-circle in Regency London
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ISBN: 1781387656 1846313554 9781846313554 9781781387658 9781846311406 1846311403 Year: 2008 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday’s circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle’s writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist.

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