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The Forces of Matter (Dover Books on Physics) Paperback - 2010

by Michael Faraday

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  • Title The Forces of Matter (Dover Books on Physics)
  • Author Michael Faraday
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications
  • Date 2010-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0486474828.G
  • ISBN 9780486474823 / 0486474828
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3 in (20.83 x 13.21 x 0.76 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physics, Force and energy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009029312
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530

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English chemist, physicist, and natural philosopher Michael Faraday (1791-1867) ranks among the world's greatest experimental philosophers and popularizers of science. Faraday conducted the experiments that made electricity viable for technological use.

Michael Faraday: An Electric Personality
A major figure in nineteenth-century science, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) made immense contributions to the study of electricity and magnetism, discovering the laws of electromagnetic induction and electrolysis. His experiments are the foundation of subsequent electromagnetic technology. He also had a sense of humor. When the Prime Minister of England William Gladstone asked Faraday what the usefulness of electricity would be, Faraday famously replied, "Why, Sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!" In addition to being a great experimenter, Faraday had the gift of exposition for a popular audience, as seen in the books which Dover has reprinted, The Forces of Matter (2010), Experimental Researches in Electricity (2004), and perhaps his most famous single book for the general reader, The Chemical History of a Candle (2003).

It is reliably reported that Einstein had a photograph of Faraday on the wall of his study alongside portraits of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell.

In the Author's Own Words:
"The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination: that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized." -- Michael Faraday

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