...Encyclopaedia Britannica,' from which I gained my first notions of electricity, and Mrs. Marcet 's ' Conversations on Chemistry,' which gave me my foundation...deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious person . . . but facts were important to me and saved me. I could trust a fact and always cross-examined an...

...Encyclopaedia Britannica,' from which I gained my iirst notions of electricity, and Mrs. Marcut's ' Conversations on Chemistry,' which gave me my foundation in that science " Do not suproso that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked as a precocious jierson. I was a very lively,...

...had read about phlogiston etc in the Encyclopaedia, but her book came as the full light in my mind. Do not suppose that I was a very deep thinker or was marked as a precocious 1 See p. iv. person;- I was a very lively, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian nights...

...beginning of my philosophy. There were two that especially helped me- — the Encyclopaedia Britannica, from which I gained my first notions of electricity,...suppose that I was a very deep thinker, or was marked a precocious person. I was a burly, imaginative person, and could believe in the Arabian Nights as...

...me, the Encyclopedia Britannica, from which I gained my first notions of electricity, and Mrs. Jane Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, which gave me my foundation in that science." These must have formed firm foundations indeed, for Faraday was to spend his life in chemical and electrical...