Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith

by Colin Archibald Russell

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school. Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a
bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195117638
• ISBN13: 9780195117639
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12