Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Raymond Brock, Faraday’s Lines of Force – Modern Physics Begins, chapter 11 in: Quarks, Spacetime, and the Big Bang, lecture notes [chapter: pdf, full text:pdf]
Early discussion of electromagnetism with emphais on the magnetic flux lines (“lines of force”):
Michael Faraday, Delienation of Lines of Magnetic Force by iron filings, §37 in: Experimental Researches in Electricity.–Twenty-Ninth Series, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 142 (1852) 137-159 [doi:10.1098/rstl.1852.0012, jstor:108540]
Thomas Martin (ed), Faraday’s diary of experimental investigation 1820-1862, HR Direct (2009) [webpage, preview:pdf]
vol IV on Wikimedia:pdf
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