Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Physics, Light, Invention, Philosophy

    Reporting a lecture by Mr Dart on 'the philosophy of a candle', urges that this subject, though ancient, will 'bring to light some curious phenomena, as to how many times one pound of candles, which, by the ordinary rules of duration, will not fit into two candlesticks, may be found to go easily into one grease-pot'.