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Burn : Michael Faraday's candle
Adaptation of Michael Faraday's lecture explaining why a candle burns.
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Why science?
This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized — at least in the Western world — as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual exploration of the surfaces of the Moon and Mars were made possible, and finally a visit to the Moon. The book then turns to our legacy from the ancient Greeks of wanting to understand rather than just know, and why the scientific way of understanding is valued. For concreteness, it relates the lives and accomplishments of six great scientists, four from the nineteenth century and two from the twentieth. Finally, the book explains how chemistry came to be seen as the most basic of the sciences, and then how physics became the most fundamental.
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Michael Faraday : physics and faith
Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career.
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Pioneers in Energy: Michael Faraday
As a young man, Michael Faraday became interested in the concept of energy and force. He became a chemist and physicist and was the first to discover electromagnetic induction. Learn more about Faraday and his contributions to the science of electricity in this profile.
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Point of a Candle: A Current Event
\"'Why does a candle flame point up?'...A flame points up because it heats the air around itself, creating currents.\" (Eye on Science) Find out how air currents keep a flame pointed up and how flames behave in the force of mircogravity.
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