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... pleased that prominence is tb here iven to the fact that such princes of a, seienee as Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, andt Michael Faraday have openly acknowledged I their belief in the divine revelation contained in na the Scriptures. The careers of these ...

LITERATURE

... Telephone, Peis, Graham Bell, Edison ; the Atlantic Cable, Electric Traction , &r3, by Walter Jar. rold, author of Michael Faraday, &c.; and Engineers acd their 2Tri:snyphs (the Story of the Locomotive, Bridge-Building, Tuanel-ATakzing, Famous Steamers ...

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... other epochs it, benitg victories of science. With that presentiment, when the time came she secured for her eldest son Michael Faraday as a teacher in the ttew learning which was to colour the Victorian age. Not only Sir Theodore Mlartin's biography but ...

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... books, and- was thus in great contrast with Thackeray, who, after d he became famous, liked no subject so well, - ii Of Michael Faraday a Very pleasant picture is v' given: ' t Faraday's religious opinions ntood quite apart from his it scientific faculties ...

BOOKS OF THE SEASON

... Robert Boyle, whose speculations were so Ul- . wisely ridiculed by Swift in his Meditations Fr of it Broomstick, to Michael Faraday and wV Jazues Olerk Maxwell. To these memoirs the vo( author adds some modern developments of sh' science, and altogether ...

NEW BOOKS

... cmergy. The subjects of the sketches are Robert Boyle, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Cavendish, Count Rum~ford, Thomas Young, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. They do not pretend to give any fresh infoizmation about these distin- guished men, but only ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... There are are other ,opers in this volume, over w-hich, if space permitted, -we should gladly lingger, and notably one on Michael FarAday. one of the greatest experimental philosophers w7hich the world has ever seen, and a loan of singularly poble and blameless ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... important post in the Royal Institution a young man whlose name and fauie have exceeded his own. This ~youug man was Michael Faraday, then twenty-two years of age. Hss parents were poor, though pious and honour- able people, and he had been, some years ...

LITERATURE

... ed by high thinking. Young Niasnmyth w~as well received by several persons of celebrity in London, as Lord Broogham, Michael Faraday, andl many others. Properly we should have said before we came tbisleugththat the inventor of the steam harn mer 'was ...

SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF FINE ARTS

... for the town of Brighton; Statuette of the late Duke of Wellingtor ; Statuette of the late Sir Robert Peel Busts of Michael Faraday, Esq., James Wal- ker, Esq., ?? an( of the late George Stephenson, Esq. ; Sketch for tire Statue of Dr. Izane Barrow, ...

LITERATURE

... o of henge indisputably the best authority on dogs in England, nothing more need be said in its fl praise. :or h he MICHAEL FARADAY. By J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., a in F.ILS. London: Macmillan & Co. 1372. L .st THIS little sketch is hardly a biography. ...

LITERATURE

... whose researches, im-' h portant though they are, do not compare for a moment with those-of his great 'predecessor, a Michael Faraday. ?? as one-is apt to suspect, aTyndaU is hauled into this nosition because his name is popular and catchiug, and Wheatstone ...