Faraday to Carlo Matteucci   29 May 1847

Royal Institution: May 29, 1847.

My dear Matteucci, - I find you are at work on specific induction1.

My ideas are very obscure on the matter now, for I cannot recollect the facts, and shall avoid doing so until you have worked out your views, and very likely for a good while after, for I am never better pleased than to see others work on points I have dealt with, and the points themselves either enlarged or multiplied or corrected.

Most truly yours, | M. Faraday

1
This seems to be a report of Matteucci (1846). Letter 2005 suggests that Faraday was expecting that this paper dealt with specific induction but later found that it did not.

Bibliography

MATTEUCCI, Carlo (1846): “Sullo stato dei coibenti, sia interposti a due conduttori carichi di elettricità contrarie, sia in presenza di una scarica elettrica”, Cimento, 4: 153-65.

Please cite as “Faraday1994,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1994