Faraday to William Robert Grove   6 July 1840

Clifton | 6 July 1840

My dear Sir

I received your last paper1 & thank you heartily for it. I hope you will not give up the research & what is more I hope you will establish the point[.] It would be a great thing to prove a fundamental fact. In reference to Franklinic electricity (as Whewell calls it2) you will, if you have occasion to refer to 1406, 1410 of the Experimental researches3, see how well your principle would suit[,] agree with & confirm my views[.]

Ever Dear Sir | Your Obliged | M. Faraday

W.R. Grove Esq | &c &c &c

1
Grove (1840).
2
See letters 1278 and 1279 and Whewell (1840), 2: 563-4.
3
Faraday (1838b), ERE12, 1406, 1410 which deal with spark discharges.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1838b): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twelfth Series. On Induction (continued)”, Phil. Trans., 128: 83-123.

GROVE, William Robert (1840): “On some Phaenomena of the Voltaic disruptive Discharge”, Phil. Mag., 16: 478-82.

WHEWELL, William (1840): The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their History, 2 volumes, London.

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