Description Based on a course of six lectures delivered at London's Royal Institution in which Faraday uses the candle analogy to explore various aspects of chemistry. Unabridged reprint of original published in New York, Chautauqua Press, 1885.
Review Morus, Iwan Rhys (2013) Review of "The Chemical History of a Candle". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 168-169).
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