Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867

Rear cover notes: "Michael Faraday is known to school children and teachers as a master of laboratory experiment, to engineers as a founder of electrical technology, to physicists as the originator of electromagnetic field theory and to chemists for discoveries such as benzene and the laws of electrochemistry. His discoveries and original theoretical insights made him an enormously influential figure of enduring interest to historians and students of science. This book, the first major work on Faraday for over twenty years, contains eleven original essays by leading Faraday scholars. They reflect the wide range of his influences and interests, and give new insights into the man, his life and his science."