/lit/ - Literature

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Yeah, in his day it was a gentlemanly endeavor to be a scientist and coming from a lowly background he was looked down upon in the beginning. It was not uncommon for gentleman scientist to also give public demonstrations of their work, and Faraday--having been inspired by many proto-Pop.Sci. books to become a scientist while he was still just a poor bookbinder's apprentice--was especially keen on this sort of public outreach, for which reason he initiated a series of Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution to be given to the public (including children) annually.
He was an extremely devout and humble man and an excellent experimentalist and, I would say, theorist as well (though he did not have the mathematical powers necessary to translate his thoughts into equations--something Maxwell had to help him out with) due to his very keen insight into the nature of his subject of study and his pursuance of truth regardless of academic precedent (something we may thank his poor education and brilliant imagination for).
You probably know about all this already but yeah, all this stuff is just so endlessly interesting to me.
> He had a unique style of research and his job uniquely made him have to find ways to "blow up" minute phenomena into forms observable by an auditorium.
I hadn't considered that but it makes a lot of sense actually. I should look into his public lectures some day, they sound interesting.