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Unpublished paper, 'Remarks on certain statements of Mr [Michael] Faraday contained in the fourth and fifth series of his "Experimental Results in Electricity"' by John Davy

Reference number: AP/19/8

Date: 04 November 1834

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Davy complains that Faraday has, in the paper referred to, made certain statements with respect to the opinions of Sir Humphry Davy relative to the conducting powers of dry nitre, and caustic potash and soda, when in fusion by heat, and also with regard to other matters connected with voltaic electricity, which are not correct; and vindicates Sir Humphry Davy from the charge of want of perspicuity in the statement of his views of these subjects.

Subject: Physics / Electricity

Received 26 December 1834.

Written by Davy in Malta.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Remarks on certain statements of Mr. Faraday, contained in the fourth and fifth series of his experimental researches in electricity'.

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AP/19/8
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04 November 1834
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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John Davy

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John Davy, Unpublished paper, 'Remarks on certain statements of Mr [Michael] Faraday contained in the fourth and fifth series of his "Experimental Results in Electricity"' by John Davy, 04 November 1834, AP/19/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_19_8/unpublished-paper-remarks-on-certain-statements-of-mr-michael-faraday-contained-in-the-fourth-and-fifth-series-of-his-experimental-results-in-electricity-by-john-davy, accessed on 08 February 2025

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