A course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle : to which is added, a lecture on platinum / by Michael Faraday ; edited by William Crookes.

  • Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.
Date:
1865
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Credit: A course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle : to which is added, a lecture on platinum / by Michael Faraday ; edited by William Crookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    fire; perhaps some clear minds have guessed shrewdly near the truth. Think of the time man has lived in hopeless ignorance: think that only during a period which might be spanned by the life of one man, has the truth been known ! Atom by atom, link by link, has the reason- ing chain been forged. Some links too quickly and too slightly made have given way, and been replaced by better work; but now the great phenomena are known, the outline is correctly and firmly drawn, cunning artists are filling in the rest, and the child who masters these Lectures knows more of fire than xlristotle. The candle itself is now made to light up the dark places of nature: the blowpipe and the prism are adding to our knowledge of the earth's crust, but the torch must come first. Among the readers of this book some few may devote themselves to increasing the stores of knowledge ; the Lamp of Science must burn. Alere flammam. W. C.