Michael Faraday, Man of Science

Michael Faraday, Man of Science

"Tyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last." In these words, with which he replied to Professor Tyndall's urgent appeal to him to accept the Presidency of the Royal Society, we have a key-note to the character of the illustrious yet modest scientist, the good and great man, whose life-story I have attempted to tell in the following pages. A life-story such as that of Michael Faraday is both easy and difficult to tellit is easy in that he passed a simple and unadventurous life; it is difficult, partly, perhaps, for the same reason, and partly because the story of his life-work is a story of the wonderful advance made in natural science during the first half of the present century. Any detailed account of that scientific work would be out of place in a biography such as the present, which aims at showing[vi] by the testimony of those who knew him and by an account of his relations with his fellow-men, how nobly unselfish, how simple, yet how grand and useful, was the long life of Michael Faraday. Besides this, we are shownhow many an illustrious name in the bede-roll of our great men brings it to mindthat with an enthusiastic love for a particular study, and unflagging perseverance in pursuance of it, the most adverse circumstance of birth and fortune may be overcome, and he who has striven take rank among the great and good whose names adorn the annals of their country. Such lives are useful, not alone for the work which is done, but for the example which they afford us, that we alsoto use Longfellow's well-known, yet beautifully true lines ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46763
Author: Jerrold, Walter
Release Date: Sep 3, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English