Michael FaradayMacmillan and Company, 1872 - 176 oldal |
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... young Michael must soon do something for his living . There happened to be a bookseller's shop in Bland- ford Street , a few doors from the entrance to the Mews , kept by a Mr. Riebau , an intelligent man , who is said to have had a ...
... young Michael must soon do something for his living . There happened to be a bookseller's shop in Bland- ford Street , a few doors from the entrance to the Mews , kept by a Mr. Riebau , an intelligent man , who is said to have had a ...
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... young Quaker , who had received a good education , and had then a situation in a City house as confidential clerk . With him Faraday chatted on philo- sophy or anything else , and happily for us he chatted on paper , in letters of that ...
... young Quaker , who had received a good education , and had then a situation in a City house as confidential clerk . With him Faraday chatted on philo- sophy or anything else , and happily for us he chatted on paper , in letters of that ...
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... young man his books , and taught him how to make the drawings in perspective which have already been alluded to . But the lectures in Dorset Street were not the only ones that Michael Faraday attended ; and as the Royal Institu- tion is ...
... young man his books , and taught him how to make the drawings in perspective which have already been alluded to . But the lectures in Dorset Street were not the only ones that Michael Faraday attended ; and as the Royal Institu- tion is ...
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... Young ; and at that time the genius of Sir Humphry Davy was entrancing the intellectual world with brilliant discoveries , and drawing fashionable audiences to Albemarle Street to listen to his eloquent expositions . Among the customers ...
... Young ; and at that time the genius of Sir Humphry Davy was entrancing the intellectual world with brilliant discoveries , and drawing fashionable audiences to Albemarle Street to listen to his eloquent expositions . Among the customers ...
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... young bookseller was employed as his amanuensis . This , however , Faraday himself tells us lasted only " some days ; " and in writing years afterwards to Dr. Paris , he says , " My desire to escape from trade , which I thought vicious ...
... young bookseller was employed as his amanuensis . This , however , Faraday himself tells us lasted only " some days ; " and in writing years afterwards to Dr. Paris , he says , " My desire to escape from trade , which I thought vicious ...
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