TheCorrespondence of Michael Faraday: 1849-1855
- ISBN-10
- 0863412513
- ISBN-13
- 9780863412516
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 1069
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- IET
- Author
- Michael Faraday
Description
This collection, in which nearly two-thirds of the letters are previously unpublished, includes discussion of Faraday's work on terrestrial and atmospheric magnetism, his theory of telegraphic retardation, his advice to the British government concerning the war against Russia, and his possible second exclusion from the Sandemanian Church. Major correspondents include the Astronomer Royal G.B. Airy, the chemist Thomas Andrews, the Secretary of the Royal Institution John Barlow, the physician Henry Bruce Jones, the Genevan politician August De La Rive, the French chemist and politician J.B. Dumas, the mathematician Charles Babbage, the engineer I.K. Brunel, and Cambridge philosopher William Whewell.
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