James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Saw the Invisible
By Jamie Glick
Length13h 33m
About this audiobook
He asked "what's the go o' that?" about everything — and grew up to answer the deepest question of his century: what is light? James Clerk Maxwell took Faraday's invisible lines of force and turned them into equations that predicted waves no eye had ever seen, moving at exactly the speed of light. Radio, television, radar and the whole wireless world were hiding inside his mathematics. He proved Saturn's rings are swarms of stones, took the first colour photograph, and built the laboratory that remade physics — then died at forty-eight, nine years before Hertz found his waves in the air, precisely where Maxwell had said they would be.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length13 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Chapter 1: The Boy Who Asked What the Go Was (1831–1847)
22. Chapter 2: Cambridge (1847–1856)
33. Chapter 3: The Rings of Saturn (1856–1860)
44. Chapter 4: The Speed of Light (1860–1865)
55. Chapter 5: Glenlair (1865–1871)
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66. Chapter 6: The Cavendish Chair (1871–1874)
77. Chapter 7: The Treatise (1873)
88. Chapter 8: The Last Years (1874–1879)
99. Chapter 9: The Proof (1879–1888)
1010. Chapter 10: The Invisible Universe (1888–Today)
1111. Special Note
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