This book, which is more than a hundred years old, is a lecture for children given by the great English physicist Michael Faraday. Faraday tells in it about the various laws of nature with which the burning of a candle is associated. The book will bring genuine pleasure to the student, teacher, student, and physicist. They will all read the book with unrelenting interest. An afterword by a doctor of physics and mathematics has been added to Faraday's lectures. Sciences B.B. Novozhilova, which introduces the reader to modern ideas about combustion.