1. Michael Faraday, Experimental researches in electricity,(3 vols., New York, 1965) vol. 1, 24ff. A useful biography of Faraday is L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday: a biography (New York, 1971).
2. Faraday hypothesized that atmospheric effects such as the Aurora Borealis and Australis could also be explained in this manner by considering the earth to rotate through its own magnetic lines of force (footnote 2), vol. 1, 52–57). See section 8 for details concerning the volume and surface charge distributions as they arise on a rotating spherical magnet.
3. Faraday (footnote 2), 336–337, §§ 3088–3090. See also section 7 below.
4. See, for example, Sir E. Whittaker, A history of the theories of aether and electricity (2 vols., New York, 1951; repr. 1973), vol. 1. For a detailed calculation using Weber’s theory of electromagnetism of the characteristics of a conducting sphere rotating about a uniform magnetic field directed parallel to the sphere’s axis of rotation, see E. Jochmann, `Über die durch einen Magnet in einem rotirenden Stromleiter inducirten elektrischen Ströme’, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik,63, (1864), 158–178. An English translation is in Philosophical magazine,(4) 27 (1864), 506–528
5. For example, Oliver Heaviside, Electromagnetic theory (3 vols., London, 1893 ), vol. I, 46–48.