Chapter 1: improvement of the mind

In the early life of Micheal Faraday he was an apprentice to George Riebau as a bookbinder. He did this till he was age 21. In the beginning, Faraday used Riebaus's show as a library, classroom, and a labratory. Faraday's dad, jokes Faraday was a blacksmith that barely kept his family of 6 out poverty.
In Faraday's time, heat light and magnetism weren't really explained they were just assumed. They knew they could mathematically could find them out but they could not actually explain what they really were.
Young Faraday needed a mentor to smooth out the rough edges and shape him into a true scientist. That person was watts. He was the first person to make Faraday think. Learning from watts, Faraday took elocation lessons 2 hours a week for 7 years. One day while working in the book shop binding books he found the 1797 edition of encyclopedia Britannica. In this book he found a 127 page exert on electricity by a surgeon named James Tytler. Through this, he learned the importance of the observed fact and that he must witness stuff first hand. So he started going to lectures about electricity. It was by Tatum and Faraday vigerously sketched and  recorded everything that he saw or heard. Soon the young Faraday started developing his own ideas and some of them didn't agree with Tatum. When Faraday mentioned his own ideas, he started giving his own lectures which disproved Tatums. There was one person Faraday admired.  His name was Sir Humphry Davy. He was a famous chemist at the time. Well Faraday regularly started attending Davy's lectures on electricity and on other things. In only 4 lectures, Davy disproved Lavoisier's theory of acid and said that he jumped to the conclusion to quickly.
In July 1812, Faraday started his own electrostatic experiments. He made his own batteries and started making them bigger and bigger. But in the eyes of the scientific community, Micheal Faraday did not exist.