Product Description: Michael Faraday's celebrated series of lectures, The Chemical History of a Candle, became one of the most successful science books ever published and was a classic work of Victorian popular science. They highlight how Faraday--the bookbinder's apprentice turned scientist--was a remarkable communicator of science...read more

Product Description: Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives...read more

Product Description: Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most important men of science in nineteenth century Britain. His discoveries of electro-magnetic rotations (1821) and electro-magnetic induction (1831) laid the foundations of the modern electrical industry...read more

Product Description: Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children...read more

Product Description: The atonement is the crown jewel of Christian doctrine. And it is the responsibility of each generation of theologians to preserve its heritage, explore its facets and allow its radiance to illumine their day. With The Glory of the Atonement editors Charles E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Predestination and justification are two of the most distinctive and familiar doctrines associated with the Protestant Reformation. Martyr, an influential Protestant theologian and biblical exegete of the sixteenth century, engages advocates and detractors alike in his most extensive discussions of these controversial theological topics, drawn from his monumental commentary on the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans...read more

Product Description: For more than 200 years the Royal Institution has been at the centre of scientific research and has also provided a cultural location for science in Britain. Within its walls some of the major scientific figures of the last two centuries - such as Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, John Tyndall, James Dewar, Lord Rayleigh, William Henry Bragg, Henry Dale, Eric Rideal, William Lawrence Bragg and George Porter -carried out much of their research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection, in which nearly two-thirds of the letters are previously unpublished, includes discussion of Faraday's work on terrestrial and atmospheric magnetism, his theory of telegraphic retardation, his advice to the British government concerning the war against Russia, and his possible second exclusion from the Sandemanian Church...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study is in its broadest sense an inquiry into the intellectual origins of the Reformed branch of Protestantism generally, but inaccurately, designated Calvinism. More specifically, it concerns one of the early theologians who gave formative shape to Reformed theology, Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), and focuses on his adoption of the soteriological doctrine of gemina praedestinatio, double predestination: divine election and divine reprobation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays that open up new perspectives on some of the problems presently seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called "mechanical philosophy" in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Michael Faraday was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century, helping to lay the foundations of the modern electricity industry. This third volume of his letters, covering the period 1841 to 1848, includes correspondence with scientists, artists, politicians and the military...read more

Product Description: This biographical study describes Faraday's life and work, and looks at how his everyday scientific practice was informed by his abilities as an experimentalist, his religious beliefs, and the rapidly changing world of 19th-century Europe...read more

Product Description: The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic...read more

Product Description: This text describes the history of technological discovery and change, and how it has both changed and been changed by society. It explores the relationship between technology and the social, cultural and economic aspects of life.

Product Description: This annual collection of essays explores the technical problems faced by different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them. It examines the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relation of technology to the social, cultural and economic aspects of life...read more

Product Description: Michael Faraday was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century, helping to lay the foundations of the modern electricity industry. This second volume of his correspondence covers the 1830s, a period when Faraday pursued the consequences of his discovery of electromagnetic induction and revised the theories of electrochemistry and the nature of electricity...read more

Product Description: This is an annual collection of essays which explore how technology is related to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and show how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred...read more

Product Description: Volume 1 of this collection of the letters of Michael Faraday reflects his importance in the world of 19th-century science. They cover the years 1811 to 1831 and span his discoveries of electro-magnetic rotations and electro-magnetic induction as well as his other researches and dealings with major figures of the day in the world of science such as Humphry Davy, Ampere and Herschel...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of six essays on diverse technical subjects, ranging in time from c.600 AD to the end of the 19th century, drawing on material relating to Australia, the Middle East and Western Europe. The general aim of the series is to explore the relationship of technology to social, cultural and economic aspects of life and to show how technological development has shaped - and been shaped by - the society in which it occurred...read more