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Michael Faraday, media man.

Patricia Fara
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Michael Faraday was an enthusiastic portrait collector, and he welcomed the invention of photography not only as a possible means of recording observations accurately, but also as a method for advertising science and its practitioners. This article (which is part of the Science in the Industrial Revolution series) shows that like many eminent scientists, Faraday took advantage of the burgeoning Victorian media industry by posing in various roles.

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Patricia Fara. 2005-12-05. Michael Faraday, media man.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2005.05.007

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