Faraday to Edward William Brayley   18 August 1836

R Institution | 18 Aug 1836

My dear Sir

I can have no objection to your note which is quite correct and indeed the words of the memoir are nearly correct in themselves whatever the sense of them may be1[.] You refer to MM Nobili & Antinoris mistake as to the direction &c of the currents[.] It is as you say briefly mentioned in the notes to their paper2 but the full proof of it is in my Letter to Gay Lussac Ann de Chimie tome LI p 404 4O9 &c3. But I would rather be considered as not having any thing to do with the expression of your opinion, though I feel the full value of such opinions as in Poggendor[f]f's case4, especially as I know them to have been uttered of the free thought & will of the writer[.]

Ever Dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley Esq | &c &c &c

1
Brayley added a note to De La Rive, A.-A., (1836b), 237, restating Faraday's priority over Nobili and Antinori. See Letter 560.
2
Nobili and Antinori (1832).
3
Faraday (1832h).
4
Possibly a reference to the note Poggendorff had added to De La Rive (1836a). See letter 907.

Bibliography

DE LA RIVE, Arthur-August (1836a): “Ueber die voltasche Elektricität, über die die chemischen Actionen begleitende Elektricität, und über die Eigenschaften, durch welche die Elektricitäten verschieden Ursprunges sich von einander untersucheiden”, Pogg. Ann., 37: 225-38.

FARADAY, Michael (1832h): “[Lettre] A M. Gay-Lussac”, Ann. Chim., 51: 404-34.

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