Faraday’s education took another step upward when William Dance, a customer of the bookshop, asked if he would like tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy lecturing at the Royal Institution.
Sir Humphry Davy was one of the most famous scientists in the world. Faraday jumped at the chance and attended four lectures about one of the newest problems in chemistry – defining acidity. He watched Davy perform experiments at the lectures.
This was the world he wanted to live in, he told himself. He took so many notes and then made additions to the notes that he produced a 300 page handwritten book, which he bound and sent to Davy as a tribute.