Charles Wheatstone to Faraday   2 June 1835

My dear Sir

The most popular accounts of the recent discoveries in Acoustics are to be found in Pouillet’s1 “Elémens de Physique”2 and in the last edition of Mrs. Somerville’s “Connexion of the Physical Sciences”3. Sir J. Herschel’s article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana4 is an admirable treatise, but the subject is treated too mathematically to allow me to recommend it to a lady for perusal; there are however many parts quite readable. Savart5 has only published memoirs in the Annales de Chimie.

I remain | My dear Sir | Yours very truly | C. Wheatstone

20 Conduit St | June 2d 1835


Address: Dr. Faraday | Royal Institution

1
Claude-Servais-Mathias Pouillet (1790–1868, DSB). Professor of Physics in Paris.
2
Pouillet (1832), 2: part 1, 94-201.
3
Somerville (1835), 148-79 which was not included in Somerville (1834).
4
Herschel, J.F.W. (1830).
5
Félix Savart (1791–1841, DSB). French physicist.

Bibliography

SOMERVILLE, Mary (1834): On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, London.

SOMERVILLE, Mary (1835): On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 2nd edition, London.

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