Departmental Papers (HSS)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
3-1991
Publication Source
Isis
Volume
82
Issue
1
Start Page
8
Last Page
23
DOI
10.1086/355635
Abstract
Jane Haldimand Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry has traditionally claimed historical attention for its effects on the young bookbinder Michael Faraday, who was converted to a life of science while binding and reading it. Marcet "inspired Faraday with a love of science and blazed for him that road in chemical and physical experimentation which led to such marvelous results," in H.J. Mozans's romantic account. Or, as Eva Armstrong put it, Marcet led Faraday to "dedicate himself to a science in which his name became immortal."1
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© 1991 University of Chicago Press.
Recommended Citation
Lindee, S. M. (1991). The American Career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, 1806-1853. Isis, 82 (1), 8-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/355635
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Date Posted: 24 October 2017
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