The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire.

Date:: 1899

Credit: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 : with notes, comments and references to contemporary letters / edited by Georg W.A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$philosophers, youn- and old, to persevere. In confinui//g to think you remind me of Newton and his results and reward. For myself 1 am well and happy, but un])roductive. Whilst I struggled against nature, T often made my self ill and weary, but since I resign myself I am far better and quite contented. It would be strange, if I were not — for though I fall out of the routes of the philosophers, I do not lose my friends. Ever My dear Schoenbein Your friend M. Faraday. m Sc/urudeni to Faraday. My dear Faraday. Professor Eisenlohr ' of Carlsruhe a most intimate friend of mine is going to London and wishing to get intro- duced to you, I write these few lines to recommend him to your kindness. You will, I am cjuite sure, be highly pleased with the personal ac(|uaintancc of that most excellent and amiable man, who by the b}'c, is a great admirer of _\'ou. Within a few days 1 shall leave Bale for Goettingen, where I intend to spend part of our Midsummer holidays with my friends there: Woehler, Weber, Wagneretc. Having worked rather hard these last eight or ten months, I feel myself a little tired and m}' mind now wants some rest and relaxation. I trust, }'ou ha\'e put yourself out of the way during the ' Wilhehn Eisenlohr, professor of Physics at the Polytechnic Institute at Carlsruhe. He was horn in 1799 at Pforzheim and died in 1S72 at Carlsruhe. ^ Wilhelm Eduard Welier, vas professor of Physics at Guttingen, Leipzig and again at GoUingen (1849) He was born in 1S04 at Wittenberg and died in 1891 at Gottingen. Johann Rudolph Wagner, professor of Physics at Ihe Polytechnic Institute at Niirnlierg, later at the University at Wiirzburg. He was born in 1S23 at Leipzig and died in 1880 at Wurzburg,$