Michael Faraday’s lab. Interesting how early electricity researchers were basically chemists first. What new field today has an unlikely parent? What current field might give rise to an unlikely child field?

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I find it vaguely reassuring that the frontier of modern science was opened up by a nearly pure experimentalist who barely knew any formal math but who was thought by Maxwell to have been an intuitive math genius. https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x90ac00

This book on Faraday is awesome if you haven’t read it. Great details: https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-Revolutionized/dp/1633886077

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