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heritagepublications of Professor Frank JamesEditions of texts:The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, (London, Institution of Electrical Engineers).
Chemistry and Theology in mid-Victorian London: The Diary of Herbert McLeod, 1860-1870, (London, Mansell, 1987). The Tales of Benjamin Abbott: A Source for the Early Life of Michael Faraday The British Journal for the History of Science, 1992, 25: 229-40. Between Two Scientific Generations: John Herschel's Rejection of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy in his 1864 Correspondence with William Thomson. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 1985, 40: 53-62. The Letters of William Crookes to Charles Hanson Greville Williams 1861-2: The Detection and Isolation of Thallium. Ambix, 1981, 28: 131-157. Books:'The Common Purposes of Life': Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002). Semaphores to Short Waves: Proceedings of a Conference on the Technology and Impact of Early Telecommunications held at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce on Monday 29 July 1996, organised by The British Society for the History of Science, The Newcomen Society and the RSA (London, Royal Society of Arts, 1998). Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery that illustrate the history of science and technology with J.V. Field (Stanford in the Vale, British Society for the History of Science, 1997). Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe edited and introduced with J.V. Field (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, paperback, 1997). Faraday, with Geoffrey Cantor and David Gooding (London, Macmillan, 1991). Translated into Spanish as Faraday (Madrid, Alianza Universidad, 1994). Republished as Michael Faraday (Atlantic Highlands, Humanities Press, 1996). The Place of Experiment: Essays on The Development of Laboratories in Industrial Civilisation, (London / New York, Macmillan / American Institute of Physics, 1989). Faraday Rediscovered: Essays on the Life and Work of Michael Faraday, 1791-1867, edited and introduced with David Gooding (London / New York, Macmillan / Stockton, 1985; paperback London / New York, Macmillan / American Institute of Physics, 1989). Journal:Co-editor of History of Technology, (London, Mansell) from 1989 (volume 12) to 1996 (volume 18). Guest co-editor of 'Science and the Visual', The British Journal for the History of Science, 1998, 31(2): 125-240. Research Papers:How Big is a Hole?: The Problems of the Practical Application of Science in the Invention of the Miners’ Safety Lamp by Humphry Davy and George Stephenson in Late Regency England. An 'open clash between Science and the Church'?: Wilberforce, Huxley and Hooker on Darwin at the British Association, Oxford, 1860. Reporting Royal Institution Lectures, 1826 to 1867. Running the Royal Institution: Faraday as an Administrator. (with Viviane Quirke) L’affaire Andrade or how not to Modernise a Traditional Institution. Biographical Register Davy, Faraday and Italian Science, Atti del IX Convegno Nazionale di Storia e Fondamenti della Chimica, Modena, 2001 (published 2002), pp. 149-158. Harriet Jane Moore, Michael Faraday, and Moore's mid-nineteenth century watercolours of the interior of the Royal Institution. In James Hamilton (editor), Fields of Influence: Conjunctions ofArtists and Scientists, 1815-1860, (Birmingham, Birmingham University Press, 2001), pp.111-128. Michael Faraday and Lighthouses. In Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham (editors), The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870, (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000), pp.92-104 Books on the Natural Sciences in the Nineteenth Century. In Andrew Hunter (editor), Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors, (4th edition, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000) pp.258-71. 'the civil-engineer's talent': Michael Faraday, science, engineering and the English lighthouse service, 1836-1865. Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 1999, 70: 153-60. (with Margaret Ray) Science in the Pits: Michael Faraday, Charles Lyell and the Home Office Enquiry into the Explosion at Haswell Colliery, County Durham, in 1844. History and Technology, 1999, 15: 213-31. Faraday, Maxwell and Field Theory. In Frank A.J.L. James (editor), Semaphores to Short Waves, pp.71-84. Faraday in the Pits, Faraday at Sea: The Role of the Royal Institution in Changing the Practice of Science and Technology in Nineteenth Century Britain. Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1997, 68: 277-301. The Appliance of Science: Humphry Davy's electrochemical protectors for ships' bottoms in the 1820s. Engineering Science and Education Journal, 1995, 4: S11-S16. Science as a Cultural Ornament: Bunsen, Kirchhoff and Helmholtz in Mid-Nineteenth Century Baden. Ambix, 1995, 42: 1-9. Reality or Rhetoric? Boscovichianism in Britain: the Cases of Davy, Herschel and Faraday. In Piers Bursill-Hall (editor), R.J. Boscovich Vita e attivita scientifica His life and scientific work, (Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993 [published 1994]), pp. 577-85. Davy in the Dockyard: Humphry Davy, the Royal Society and the Electro-chemical Protection of the Copper Sheeting of His Majesty's Ships in the mid 1820s. Physis, 1992, 29: 205-25. Michael Faraday, The City Philosophical Society and the Society of Arts. Royal Society of Arts Journal, 1992, 140: 192-199. The Military Context of Chemistry: The Case of Michael Faraday. Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 1991, 11: 36-40. Michael Faraday's First Law of Electrochemistry: How Context Develops New Knowledge. In John T. Stock and Mary Virginia Orna (editors), Electrochemistry, Past and Present, (Washington, American Chemical Society, 1989), pp.32-49. George Gabriel Stokes and William Thomson; biographical attitudes towards their Irish origins. In John R. Nudds, Norman D. McMillan, Denis L. Weaire, Susan M.P. McKenna Lawlor (editors), Science in Ireland 1800-1930: Tradition and Reform, (Dublin, Trinity College, 1988), pp.75-82. The Practical Problems of 'New' Experimental Science: Spectro-Chemistry and the Search for Hitherto Unknown Chemical Elements in Britain 1860-1869. The British Journal for the History of Science, 1988, 21: 181-94. The Extension of Terrestrial Chemistry in the mid-Nineteenth Century: Spectro-chemical Analysis and the Composition of the Solar System. Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1986, 58: 17-30. "The Optical Mode of Investigation": Light and Matter in Faraday's Natural Philosophy. In Gooding and James, Faraday Rediscovered, pp.136-161. The Discovery of Line Spectra. Ambix, 1985, 32: 53-70. The Creation of a Victorian Myth: The Historiography of Spectroscopy. History of Science, 1985, 23: 1-24. Of 'Medals and Muddles'. The Context of the Discovery of Thallium: William Crookes's Early Spectro-Chemical Work. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 1984, 39: 65-90. The Physical Interpretation of the Wave Theory of Light. The British Journal for the History of Science, 1984, 17: 47-60. Reprinted in S.G. Brush (editor), History of Physics: Selected Reprints (College Park, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1988), 64-77. The Study of Spark Spectra, 1835-1859 Ambix, 1983, 30: 137-162. The Debate on the Nature of the Absorption of Light 1830- 1835: A Core-Set Analysis. History of Science, 1983, 21: 335-368. The Conservation of Energy, Theories of Absorption and Resonating Molecules, 1851-1854: G.G. Stokes, A.J. Angstrom and W. Thomson. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 1983, 38: 79-107. The Establishment of Spectro-Chemical Analysis as a Practical Method of Qualitative Analysis, 1854-1861. Ambix, 1983, 30: 30-53. Thermodynamics and Sources of Solar Heat, 1846-1862. The British Journal for the History of Science, 1982, 15: 155-181. Encyclopedia Entries:Contributed many of the 'Science, Technology, and Discovery' entries to Philip Waller and John Rowett (editors), Chronology of the 20th Century, Oxford, 1995.Bessemer, Henry In Encarta '98 Curie, Marie In Encarta '98 Curie, Pierre In Encarta '98 Dalton, John In Encarta '98 Davy, Humphry. In J. Yolton, J.V. Price and J. Stephens (editors), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-century British Philosophers, 2 volumes, Bristol, 1999, 1: 225-6. Faraday, Michael In Lexikon der Physik, volume 2, Berlin, 1998, pp. 305-6. Herschel, Frederick William. In J. Yolton, J.V. Price and J. Stephens (editors), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-century British Philosophers, 2 volumes, Bristol, 1999, 1: 422-3. Royal Institution of Great Britain. In F.M. Leventhal (editor), Twentieth-Century Britain, An Encyclopedia, New York, 1995, p.689. Royal Society of London. In F.M. Leventhal (editor), Twentieth-Century Britain, An Encyclopedia, New York, 1995, p.691. Scientific Revolution timeline In Encarta '98 Spectroscope (Early) In Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner (editors), Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, New York, 1998, pp.563-5. Young, Thomas. In J. Yolton, J.V. Price and J. Stephens (editors), The Dictionary of Eighteenth-century British Philosophers, 2 volumes, Bristol, 1999, 2: 989-91. Other Publications :The Royal Family and the Royal Institution, 1799-1999, London, Royal Institution, 1999.Evolving Ideas. Chemistry 2000, London, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999, p.31. The Royal Institution of Great Britain: 200 years of scientific discovery and communication. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1999, 24: 225-31. Past offers a future. Financial Times Guide, 4 October 1999, p.6. Visiting Science - The Royal Institution. Breakthrough, 1999, 1(3): 10. Des éléments trahis par leurs spectres. Les Cahiers de Sceince et Vie, August 1999, pp.6-15. The Bicentenary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Chemical Heritage, 1999, 17(2): 45. Michael Faraday and American Science, London, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1999. Moneyed chemist. Chemistry in Britain, April 1999, p.22. Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Chemistry in Britain, April 1999, p.32. Thomas Young (1773-1829). Chemistry in Britain, April 1999, p.32. Science for 'common purposes'. Chemistry and Industry, 1999, p. 232. 1999: the bicentenary of a great British institution. Materials World, 1999, 7: 148-50. 1830-1860. Daily Telegraph Connected, 16 July 1998, p.8. Science v Religion: The Big Match. The Birmingham Post, 21 October 1996, supplement, p.24 Trinity House move unearths major cache of Faraday letters. IEE News, 1 December 1994, p. 2. The man who cast a new light on science. New Scientist, 17 September 1994, pp. 45-6. (With J.V. Field) Frankenstein and the Spark of Being. History Today, September 1994, pp. 47-53. Michael Faraday's Work on Glass. Borax Review, 1991, 10: 20-22. The Faraday Industry. Physics World, September 1991, pp.41-43. Michael Faraday's Work on Optical Glass. Physics Education, 1991, 26: 296-300. Michael Faraday - The Chemist. Education in Chemistry, 1991, 28: 128-130. Michael Faraday and Yorkshire. Dalesman, September 1991, pp.40-42. Time, Tide and Michael Faraday. History Today, September 1991, pp.28-34. Spectro-chemistry and Myth. History of Science, 1986, 24: 433-439. Experimental Man. Interpreting God's World. Times Higher Education Supplement, 31 January 1986, p.15. (With Irena M. McCabe) Collections X: History of Science and Technology Resources at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The British Journal for the History of Science, 1984, 17: 205-209. Faraday's Correspondence: brief overviewsVolume 1This volume, in which just under 60% of the letters were previously unpublished, traces Faraday's early life from near the end of his apprenticeship as a bookbinder in 1812 to 1831, the year he discovered electro-magnetic induction. It deals with his appointment as Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution, his Continental tour with Humphry Davy, his membership of the City Philosophical Society, his learning science, his election to the Royal Society and his rise within the Royal Institution to being Superintendent of the House and Director of the Laboratory in which capacity he helped to establish the Friday Evening Discourses. Scientific work includes his discovery of electro-magnetic rotations and induction and the liquefaction of chlorine gas as well as a vast amount of professional consultancy work including the project to improve optical glass at the end of the 1820s.Major corespondents in this volume include the friends of his youth, Benjamin Abbott, Richard Phillips, and Edward Magrath, the chemist Humphry Davy who employed Faraday at the Royal Institution, the French physicists A.-M. Ampere and J.N.P. Hachette, the engineers Mark Isambard and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Swiss chemist Charles-Gaspard De La Rive, the Governor of the Royal Military Academy Percy Drummond, the polymathic John Herschel and, of course, his future wife, Sarah Barnard whom he married in 1821.
Volume 2This volume, in which over 70% of the letters were previously unpublished, covers most of the 1830s. During this period, Faraday pursued the consequence of his discovery of electro-magnetic induction, demonstrated the identity of electricities and revised entirely the theories of electro-chemistry (in the process coining now familiar words such as electrode, cathode and ion) and the nature of electricity.His correspondents in this volume include men and women of science (such as William Whewell, Charles Babbage, G.B. Airy, J.D. Forbes, Joseph Henry, Alexander von Humboldt, Macedonio Melloni, Christian Schoenbein, Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville), antiquaries (such as John Gage and Thomas Pettigrew), military and naval men (such as John Barrow, Charles Pasley and Percy Drummond), artists (such as William Wyon, H.W. Pickersgill, John Constable and John Landseer) and politicians (such as Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, Lord Holland and many members of the Holland House circle).
Volume 3This volume, in which nearly 75% of the letters were previously unpublished, covers most of the 1840s. During the early part of this period Faraday's scientific productivity declined markedly, but in 1845 he discovered the magneto-optical effect and diamagnetism, which allowed him to argue for his views on the nature of matter. In his work for the state, Faraday conducted, with Charles Lyell, the inquiry into the Haswell Colliery disaster in 1844. Faraday's correspondence with Trinity House illustrate the crucial role which Faraday played in the development of the lighthouse service in the middle third of the nineteenth century.Major correspondents in this volume include the Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy, the Irish chemist Thomas Andrews, the mathematician Charles Babbage, the Governor General of Canada Charles Bagot, the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the philanthropist Angela Burdett Coutts, the French Chemist Jean-Baptiste-Andre Dumas, the Secretary of Trinity House Jacob Herbert, Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace, the President of the Royal Institution the Duke of Northumberland, the Prime Minister Robert Peel, the German physicist Julius Plücker, the Swiss chemist Christian Schoenbein, the natural philosopher William Thomson and the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell.
Volume 4The volume in which nearly two thirds of the letters were previously unpublished covers 1849 and the first half of the 1850s. Topics covered include Faraday's extensive work on terrestrial and atmospheric magnetism, the beginning of the electrification of lighthouses, his work on the theory of telegraphic retardation, his advice to various government departments on the prosecution of the Anglo-French war against Russia, his possible second (and thus final) exclusion from the Sandemanian Church and the controversy over his views on table turning.Correspondents in this volume include the Astronomer Royal G.B. Airy, the Irish chemist, Thomas Andrews, the Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University William Thomson, the Secretary of the Royal Institution John Barlow, the physician Henry Bence Jones, the Genevan savant and politician August De La Rive, the French chemist and politician J.B. Dumas, the mathematician Charles Babbage, the new Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution John Tyndall, the engineer I.K. Brunel, the philanthropist Angela Burdett Coutts, the lawyer and natural philosopher William Robert Grove, the assistant secretary of the Royal Institution and co-religionist Benjamin Vincent, the Secretary of Trinity House Jacob Herbert, the German physicist Julius Plücker, the director of the 'magnetic crusade' and Royal Society officer Edward Sabine, the Swiss chemist Christian Schoenbein, the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell and the Admiral of the Fleet Thomas Byam Martin. |
      
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