Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the 19th Century - Couverture rigide

Cantor, G.N.

 
9780333550779: Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the 19th Century

Synopsis

Faraday has become renowned as the discoverer of such phenomena as electromagnetic rotation, electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrochemistry. Moreover, his theoretical insights provided the basis for field theory. This book locates Faraday and his science in the context of the Sandemanians, an obscure Christian fundamentalist sect to which he belonged. After outlining the history of the sect, Faraday's social and political views, including his attitude to the scientific community, are shown to derive from the Sandemanian social philosophy. Likewise, his profoundly religious understanding of nature is seen as permeating many aspects of his science.

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9780333588024: Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 10 :  0333588029 ISBN 13 :  9780333588024
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
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