James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Saw the Invisible
He asked "what's the go o' that?" about everything. James Clerk Maxwell was an Edinburgh lawyer's son, nicknamed "Dafty" at school for his endless questions, who published his first scientific paper at fourteen — and grew up to see what no one else could: that the space around a magnet is not empty at all, but full of fields whose ripples are light itself.
This biography follows the whole arc: Cambridge and the riddle of colour vision; the Adams Prize proof that Saturn's rings are swarms of separate stones; the London years, where Faraday's lines of force became, in Maxwell's hands, the equations of electromagnetism — and the speed of light fell out of the mathematics; the first permanent colour photograph; the statistical theory of gases and its famous "demon"; the great Treatise of 1873; and the Cavendish Laboratory he designed at Cambridge. It ends with the proof he never lived to see: Hertz generating his invisible waves in 1888, and Einstein — who kept Maxwell's portrait on his study wall — building relativity upon his equations.
Inside this biography:
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Asked What the Go Was (1831–1847)
Chapter 2: Cambridge (1847–1856)
Chapter 3: The Rings of Saturn (1856–1860)
Chapter 4: The Speed of Light (1860–1865)
Chapter 5: Glenlair (1865–1871)
Chapter 6: The Cavendish Chair (1871–1874)
Chapter 7: The Treatise (1873)
Chapter 8: The Last Years (1874–1879)
Chapter 9: The Proof (1879–1888)
Chapter 10: The Invisible Universe (1888–Today)
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