[ROYAL INSTITUTION.] WHEWELL, William, Michael FARADAY, Robert Gordon LATHAM, Charles G.B. DAUBENY, John TYNDALL, James PAGET, and W.B. HODGSON (contributors). Lectures on Education delivered at the R

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[ROYAL INSTITUTION.] WHEWELL, William, Michael FARADAY, Robert Gordon LATHAM, Charles G.B. DAUBENY, John TYNDALL, James PAGET, and W.B. HODGSON (contributors). Lectures on Education delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. London: Savill and Edwards for John W. Parker and Son . 1855. 8vo (185 x 123mm). Original green cloth, boards blocked in blind with central cartouche and border, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, maroon endpapers, entirely unopened; pp. [1]-8, [1]-316, [1]-8 (advertisements); slightly faded on spine and outer parts of boards, extremities slightly bumped, otherwise a very good, unopened copy. First edition. This volume comprises the text of seven lectures delivered in the Royal Institution by William Whewell, Michael Faraday, Robert Latham, Charles Daubeny, John Tyndall, James Paget and W.B. Hodgson in the spring of 1854. As the ODNB relates, 'An unexpected consequence of Faraday's discovery of diamagnetism was that many of those who had taken an interest in mesmerism, which was then sweeping the country, thought that Faraday had found the mechanism for the phenomena and wrote to tell him so in 1846. Although Faraday had taken some interest in mesmerism, he concluded that there was nothing in it. In this case he made no public statement about his deep scepticism (perhaps he recollected the difficulties he had experienced since 1837 when it was stated widely, but incorrectly, that he believed that Andrew Crosse had made living insects usi

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