There have been many biographies of Humphry Davy (1778-1829), all of which try to make sense of his unprecedented career: his social mobility in the class-conscious era of Jane Austen; his place in the Romantic movement as poet, philosopher, and sage; his dramatic experimental research and emphasis on the utility and promise of science (especially chemistry); his tangled relationship with his assistant and pupil Michael Faraday; and the dialogues composed as his legacy in his last lonely years.
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