When Faraday died, his friend and successor John Tyndall delivered the appraisal only a peer could give. Faraday as a Discoverer walks through the discoveries — rotation, induction, electrolysis, diamagnetism — while painting the character Tyndall loved: ‘the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen’, and among its gentlest men.
Part biography, part elegy, part physics — it remains the most affectionate great book in scientific literature. Download the free EPUB and mourn with the Royal Institution.