Gooding (David) and James (Frank J.L.) on Michael Faraday - David M. Knight - Sophie Forgan - Geoffrey N. Cantor - Brian Bowers - Nancy J. Nersessian - Ryan D. Tweney - Elspeth Crawford
Reference : 100093
(1985)
Stockton Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1985 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's blue printed dust-jacket, illustrated by a photograph of Michael Faraday In-8 1 vol. - 272 pages
1 plate in frontispiece (Faraday's Laboratory) and 15 other plates (complete of the 16 plates) 1st edition, 1985 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of plates, Notes on contributors, Foreword by Professor Sir George Porter, xiv, Text, 258 pages - David Gooding and Frank A.J.L. James : Faraday rediscovered - David M. Knight : Davy and Faraday : Father and Sons - Sophie Forgan : Faraday, from Servant to Savant, the institutional context - Geoffrey N. Cantor : Reading the Book of Nature : The relation between Faraday's religion and his science - David Gooding : In Nature's school : Faraday as an experimentalist - Frank A.J.L. James : The optical mode of investigation : Light and matter in Faraday's Natural philosophy - Brian Bowers : Faraday, Wheatstone and electrical engineering - Nancy J. Nersessian : Faraday's field concept - Ryan D. Tweney : Faraday's discovery of induction - Elspeth Crawford : Learning from experience - Bibliographical notes, Collected bibliography and index dust-jacket complete, unmarked and near fine, small part of the bottom right corner is lightly torn, without missings, inside is fine, no markings, a French publisher retailer sticker inside the front cover (Lavoisier), it's NOT an ex-library copy, a rather nice copy