Table of Contents

• The Correspondence
• Previous Publication of Letters
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Frank A.J.L. James is Professor in the History of Science at the Royal Institution. He has written on physics and chemistry in the nineteenth century and with Geoffrey Cantor and David Gooding has written the biography Michael Faraday (MacMillan / Humanities Press). He has edited a collection of essays on nineteenth century communications, Semaphores to Short Waves (RSIA) and with J V Field has written Science in Art (BSMS)on pictures in the National Gallery which have a scientific content. Most recently he has edited The Common Purpose of Life: Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ashgate).


Frank James lives in London and is Married with three children.