Walter Jerrold’s Michael Faraday, Man of Science tells the best rags-to-genius story in science briskly and warmly: the newsboy and bookbinder’s apprentice who read the books he bound, talked his way into Davy’s laboratory, and became the greatest experimental philosopher of his century.
Shorter and lighter than the standard biographies, it is the ideal first meeting with science’s gentlest giant. Download the free EPUB for Faraday in an evening.