A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist who explored electricity and magnetism.

The life of the British chemist who invented the electric generator and whose experiments in electricity opened a new scientific field.

Examines the life of the English physicist, who rose from a boyhood in the slums of London to make significant discoveries in the study of electricity, magnetism, and light.

"This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized -- at least in the Western world -- as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and...