Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle is the most famous science lectures ever given: six Christmas talks at the Royal Institution in which a single burning candle yields combustion, capillary action, the composition of air and water, respiration — the whole architecture of chemistry, drawn from an object every child in the room already knew.
‘There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy.’ Download the free EPUB and take the door Faraday opened.