FARADAY, MICHAEL

Faraday, Michael: translation

(1791–1867)

English scientist. The son of a blacksmith, Faraday was apprenticed to a bookbinder when he attracted the attention of Sir Humphrey Davy in 1812. His discovery of electro-magnetic ‘lines of force’ and his view of the atom as merely a centre of force opened up field theory, and itself owed ancestry to the views of Kant, and especially Boscovich.