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AN extremely well-compiled and interesting book; but why did the author commence with the life of a living professor, who is not an electrician? Faraday, as the brightest electrical light of this or any other age, should have headed the series. The author has a rich store of names to draw upon—Gilbert, Coulomb, Arago, Snow Harris, Franklin, Cavendish, Galvani, Volta, Henry Davy, Ronalds, Oersted, Ampère, De la Rive, Ohm, Schilling, Gauss, Weber, Daniell, Crosse, Steinheil—without trenching on living celebrities. The work is very impartially written. The life of Morse might have been written by an enthusiastic American, while Wheatstone's friends cannot complain of the eulogy of their hero.
Lives of the Electricians.
By William T. Jeans. (London: Whitaker and Co., 1886.)
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Lives of the Electricians . Nature 35, 270–271 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035270d0
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