IN 1839 the Rev. W. Cook was appointed to the City of London School to deliver ten to twelve lectures a year on chemistry and natural philosophy, and this was considered sufficient until 1845, when ...

Sir Humphry Davy fascinated rapturous crowds when he delivered his lectures in chemistry to the Royal Institution in London. In the late 1700s and early 1800s and in sumptuous surroundings, Davy would ...

THE object of this series of lectures is stated to have been to “place before the general public the present position of some of the main branches of science and to point out the direction in which ...

Michael Faraday, a giant of 19th-century science, was a figure so respected that Albert Einstein kept a portrait of him in his study. He not only discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction ...