Michael Faraday, His Life and Work

The biography traces Michael Faraday’s rise from modest early circumstances and limited schooling through his long association with the Royal Institution, outlining successive periods of experimental research in electricity, magnetism, and related phenomena and describing the apparatus and demonstrations that supported his discoveries. It also relates his public lectures, later years, and personal convictions, and presents reflections on scientific method, education, and religion, supplemented by illustrative plates and unpublished notebook excerpts that illuminate his working processes.