Michael Faraday the great experimentor

Michael Faraday went to work as a janitor in order to be near the scientist Sir Humphry Davy.  From that humble beginning, he would experiment his way to being one of the greatest scientists of his age.  Due to his faith in Christ, he sought no gain from his discoveries and even turned down an appointment as the President of the Royal Society and an offer of a knighthood thinking it not right to accept worldly honors.  He even turned down a government request to develop poison gasses for use in the Crimean War.

An excellent lecturer, Faraday gave a series of talks for boys and girls that became the wonderful book:  The Chemical History of a Candle.  In the lectures, Faraday uses a candle as a bridge to discuss chemicals and their reactions, gasses, the atmosphere, gravity, and so much more.  He said "there is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not  come into play and is touched upon in these phenomena.  There is no better, there is no more natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle."

The lectures demonstrate his great skills at experimentation and scientific reasoning that are very easy to grasp.  A true model of the scientific endeavor and a worthy classic to be studied by students of science.