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 Faraday's scientific publications include no less than 163 papers (see Royal Society Catalogue) on the most diverse chemical and physical subjects. Among the most important of these, in addition to those on electrochemistry leading to the discovery of the law which bears his name, may be mentioned those on the liquefaction and solidification of gases, 1823 and 1845; on the discovery of benzine, 1825; on the seat of the electromotive force in the voltaic cell, 1834; on the laws of static and electromagnetic induction and the development of the concept of lines of force, 1831-1838; on the para and diamagnetic properties of bodies, 1846; and, perhaps the greatest of all, on the discovery of the electromagnetic rotation of polarized light, 1845.