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The Beautiful Candle

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · reading, technology

Michael Faraday’s lectures at the Royal Institution in London - “The Chemical History of the Candle” :
A candle is beautiful. “Beauty means not the best-looking things, but the best-acting thing.” A candle is beautiful because its functioning elegantly and efficiently rests upon a wide range of universal laws. The heat of the flame melts the [...]

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