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

Cantor, G.N.

 
9780333550779: Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist: A Study of Science and Religion in the 19th Century
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0333550773 ISBN 13: 9780333550779
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0333550773
ISBN 13 
9780333550779
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
371

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