Among the Sandemanians
John Hedley Brooke, 25 July 1991
Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist
by Geoffrey Cantor.
Macmillan, 359 pp., £40, May 1991,0 333 55077 3 Show More
by Geoffrey Cantor.
Macmillan, 359 pp., £40, May 1991,
“... The serene face of Michael Faraday radiates from all directions: first in disguised profile on a postage stamp, then more handsomely on the £20 note. Illuminating the dark warrens of the London Underground, he now advertises an exhibition at the Science Museum to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth. Visitors to this intimate and thoughtful display are reminded of how much the modern world owes to the gentle giant of experimental science, whose insights into electro-magnetism were eventually to find application in motors and machines which transformed human life even as they transformed electrical currents ... ”