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THOUGH there exist four well-known biographies of Faraday in the English language, one only, the brief essay by Tyndall, “Faraday as a Discoverer,” has been translated into Italian. Neither, until the appearance of the work now under review, had any Italian biography of Faraday been written. Prof. Naccari, whose position as professor of physics in the University of Turin guarantees his competence in physical science, and who is himself an experimental investigator of some distinction, has now written a life of Faraday which worthily presents the career of our great countryman. He has drawn freely and with due acknowledgment from all the four English biographies, and has had the advantage also of being in possession of the volume of printed correspondence between Faraday and Schönbein, which was published more recently than any of the four. Thus, without being either encumbered with the mass of details of Bence Jones's authoritative memoir, or restrained within the smaller compass of the three smaller biographies, he has been able to produce a work which in certain aspects is the most satisfactory life of Faraday yet compiled. He has not failed to incorporate the newer material while preserving what was of permanent value in the old.
La Vita di Michele Faraday.
Narrata da Andrea Naccari. Pp. 370. (Padova: Fratelli Drucker, 1908.) Price 3 lire.
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La Vita di Michele Faraday . Nature 83, 95 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083095a0
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