The Man Who Changed Everything
Dry and factual Biography of one of the greatest minds of 19th century.
When I read it
September 2021
Why I picked it up
I needed to learn more about this great man, his contribution to our civilisation and his legacy.
Interesting bits
Colors and light
Saturn
Experiments before (alongside) theory
Electricity, Magnetism and Light
Maxwell’s equations
Cavendish LAboratory in Cambridge
Quotes
One scientific epoch ended and another one began with James Clerk Maxwell (Albert Einstein)
Inspiration & Next
Dawkins’s “The Blind Watchmaker” is a natural follow up (maybe should have read before this - anyway, bumped up in TBR list). Dennet seems to pontificate and higly admire Dawkins.
Other titles referenced in the book and TBR’ed:
Prisoner’s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb - William Poundstone
The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge - William Poundstone
Dennett’s book on consciousness (Consciousness Explained).
Dennett is one of my new heroes.
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