Excerpt from Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day I entered the sho'p of a bookseller and book binder at the age of thirteen, in-the year 1804, re mained there eight years, and during the chief part of the time bound books. N ow it was in these books, in, the hours after work, that I found the beginning of my philosophy. There were two that specially helped me, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ' from which I gained my first notions of electricity, and Mrs. Marcet's Conversations in Chemistry, ' which gave me my foundation in ...
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Excerpt from Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day I entered the sho'p of a bookseller and book binder at the age of thirteen, in-the year 1804, re mained there eight years, and during the chief part of the time bound books. N ow it was in these books, in, the hours after work, that I found the beginning of my philosophy. There were two that specially helped me, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ' from which I gained my first notions of electricity, and Mrs. Marcet's Conversations in Chemistry, ' which gave me my foundation in that science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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