EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES
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EXPERIMENTAL RESEAECHES
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BY
MICHAEL FARADAY, D.C.L. F.R.S.
FULLERIAN PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACAD. SCIENCES, PARIS, ORD. BORUSS. POUR LE MERITE
BQ., MEMB. ROYAL AND IMPERIAL ACADD. OF SCIENCES, PETERSBURGH,
FLORENCE, COPENHAGEN, BERLIN, GOTTINGEN, MODENA,
STOCKHOLM, MUNICH, BRUXELLES, VIENNA,
BOLOGNA, ETC. ETC.
Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1846—1852.
"With other Electrical Papers from the Proceedings of the Royal Institution and Philosophical Magazine.
LONDON:
RICHARD TAYLOR AND WILLIAM FRANCIS,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.
1855.
PREFACE.
For reasons stated in the First Volume of these Experimental Researches, I have been induced to gather the remaining Series together, and to add to them certain other papers devoted to Electrical and Magnetic
Research.
To the prefatory remarks containing these reasons,
I would recall the recollection of those who may honour these Researches with any further attention. I have printed the papers in this Volume, as before, with little or no alteration, except that I have placed the fair and just date of each at the top of the pages.
As regards magnecrystailic action, which commences at Paragraph 2454, the reader will see the gradual change and enlargement of view respecting its …