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Quotation from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
“There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.”
The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes))
Faraday's opening justification for spending a whole course on a single candle.
Citation: "There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle." — Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I (Project Gutenberg text (1908 Chatto and Windus impression, ed. William Crookes)). (id faraday-chemical-history-of-a-candle-q1)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
