Faraday to Charles Wheatstone   5 December 1845

Royal Institution: Friday night, December 5, 1845.

Many thanks, my dear Wheatstone, for your note. I have in consequence seen Be[c]querel's paper1, and added a note at the first opening of my paper2. It is astonishing to think how he could have been so near the discovery of the great principle and fact, and yet so entirely miss them both, and fall back into old and preconceived notions.

Ever truly yours, | M. Faraday

1
Becquerel (1827) which reported some observations of diamagnetic action.
2
Faraday (1846c), ERE20, p.21 where he acknowledged Becquerel's work.

Bibliography

BECQUEREL, Antoine-César (1827): “Sur les Actions magnétiques excitées dans tous les corps par l'influence d'aimans très-énergiques”, Ann. Chim., 36: 337-49.

FARADAY, Michael (1846c): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twentieth Series. On new magnetic actions, and on the magnetic condition of all matter”, Phil. Trans., 136: 21-40.

Please cite as “Faraday1796,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1796