Faraday as a DiscovererD. Appleton and Company, 1873 - 171 páginas |
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... memoir embraces two discourses on Fara- day , delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on January 17th and 24th , 1868 . ROYAL INSTITUTION , 21st February , 1868 , JOHN TYNDALL . CONTENTS . PARENTAGE - INTRODUCTION TO THE ...
... memoir embraces two discourses on Fara- day , delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on January 17th and 24th , 1868 . ROYAL INSTITUTION , 21st February , 1868 , JOHN TYNDALL . CONTENTS . PARENTAGE - INTRODUCTION TO THE ...
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... memoir was sent to the Royal Society on December 19 , 1844. I may add that while he was conducting his first ex- periments on the liquefaction of gases , thirteen pieces of glass were on one occasion driven by an explosion into ...
... memoir was sent to the Royal Society on December 19 , 1844. I may add that while he was conducting his first ex- periments on the liquefaction of gases , thirteen pieces of glass were on one occasion driven by an explosion into ...
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... memoir on the subject ; but no cause could be assigned for so extraordinary an action . It had also been examined in this country by two celebrated men , Mr. Babbage and Sir John Herschel ; but it still re- mained a mystery . Faraday ...
... memoir on the subject ; but no cause could be assigned for so extraordinary an action . It had also been examined in this country by two celebrated men , Mr. Babbage and Sir John Herschel ; but it still re- mained a mystery . Faraday ...
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... memoirs of Faraday had met the public eye . This evidently irritated him . He reprinted the paper of the learned Italians in the Philosophical Magazine , ' accom- panied by sharp critical notes from himself . He also wrote a letter ...
... memoirs of Faraday had met the public eye . This evidently irritated him . He reprinted the paper of the learned Italians in the Philosophical Magazine , ' accom- panied by sharp critical notes from himself . He also wrote a letter ...
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... memoir on the Electricity of the Voltaic Pile , ' published in 1834 , appears to have produced but little impression upon the supporters of the con- tact theory . These indeed were men of too great intellectual weight and insight ...
... memoir on the Electricity of the Voltaic Pile , ' published in 1834 , appears to have produced but little impression upon the supporters of the con- tact theory . These indeed were men of too great intellectual weight and insight ...
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Página 67 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 7 - Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person. I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopaedia ; but facts were important to me and saved me.
Página 63 - ... be produced which shall go on for ever against a constant resistance, or only be stopped, as in the voltaic trough, by the ruins which its exertion has heaped up in its own course. This would indeed be a creation of power, and is like no other force in nature. We have many processes by which...
Página 81 - I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Página 6 - I entered the shop of a bookseller and bookbinder at the age of 13, in the year 1804, remaining there eight years, and during the chief part of the time bound books. Now it was in those books, in the hours after work, that I found the beginning of my philosophy. There were two that especially helped me, the