The Chemical History of a Candle |
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Michael Faraday
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Pages: 96 (Paperback)
Editor: William Crookes
ISBN: 1406500747
Pub: Dodo Press
Pub date: 2005-10-17
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 578171
Reader Reviews:
You could not hold a candle to this book. (13/13 people found this helpful)
This book should be a compulsory read for all budding scientists of all disciplines. You will ask yourself on reading it how could this scientist [Faraday] obtain so much information from such a simple subject as a candle with the crude apparatus available in the 1850's. His enthusiasm shines throughout the whole book. You will learn a great deal and my be inspired - because of the simplicity involved - to make your own experiments in your own field. What he discovered and reported from the simple igniting of a candle is spellbinding.
Finally towards the end of the book you will be amazed at the similarity of our bodies and a candle! Well I was and after 50 years in science that is some achievement. I wish I'd read it at the start of my career.
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