🕯️ Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 4 – from various lectures in the 1800s, with Michael Faraday This is Michael Faraday's candle holder, used when delivering the popular lecture series "A Chemical History of a Candle" in the mid-1800s, which helped audiences step into the world of science through a familiar household object. The lectures were later published as a book, in which Faraday wrote: "There is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not come into pla
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