EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY
by
MICHAEL FARADAY, D.C.L. F.R.S.
Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution.
Corresponding Member, etc. of the Royal and Imperial Academies of
Science of Paris, Petersburgh, Florence, Copenhagen, Berlin,
Gottingen, Modena, Stockholm, Palermo, etc. etc.
In Two Volumes
VOL. I.
Second Edition
Reprinted from the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS of 1831-1838.
London:
Richard and John Edward Taylor,
Printers and Publishers to the University of London,
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street
PREFACE
I have been induced by various circumstances to collect in One Volume the
Fourteen Series of Experimental Researches in Electricity, which have appeared in the Philosophical Transactions during the last seven years: the chief reason has been the desire to supply at a moderate price the whole of these papers, with an Index, to those who may desire to have them.
The readers of the volume will, I hope, do me the justice to remember that it was not written as a _whole_, but in parts; the earlier portions rarely having any known relation at the time to those which might follow. If I had rewritten the work, I perhaps might have considerably varied the form, but should not have altered much of the real matter: it would not, however, then have been considered a faithful reprint or statement of the course and results of the whole investigation, which…