Discovery
The discovery is well documented, because Faraday's daily notebook has been published. In 1845 he undertook a series of experiments explicitly intended to find some effect on light from electric and magnetic fields, and succeeded.
On 13 Sept. 1845, in paragraph #7504, under the rubric Heavy Glass, he wrote: -
- ...BUT, when the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other....
He summarized the results of his experiments on 30 Sept. 1845, in paragraph #7718, famously writing: -
- ...Still, I have at last succeeded in illuminating a magnetic curve or line of force, and in magnetizing a ray of light....
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