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Neil Oliver Podcast

The Man Who Saw Light For What It Is

Neil Oliver Podcast

Fat Belly Films

Neil Oliver, Comment, Travel, Britain, History

4.8981 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell.


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0:00.0

Greetings fellow time travellers. As always it's a joy to have you with me for the journey through space and time

0:06.9

to help support the making of this podcast and as a collateral benefit to get extra content every week, sign up to my Patreon.com site.

0:17.0

As a member, you get access to a weekly question and answer session.

0:21.0

I answer questions from fellow travelers about everything

0:24.5

anything history archaeology current affairs politics you name it anything

0:28.6

everything's up for grabs and we run competitions with prizes and you get access to my weekly monologues

0:35.2

where I lay out how I'm feeling about everything that's going on and well if you go to

0:39.6

the Patreon.com site look for me by name the instructions, part with a little bit of cash,

0:44.9

you can pay monthly or annually and you become part of the family, like-minded people with a love of history

0:50.0

and questions they won't answer. Okay, now it's time to strap into the time machine as we set off towards the next step in my love letter to the world.

0:57.0

Recorder, Microphone, Action. Mathematics, the language the universe speaks, his elegant equations are amongst the most beautiful ever written.

1:13.9

As soon as he could speak he began asking questions about the world around him.

1:18.3

His theory that electricity, light and magnetism

1:21.4

are all manifestations of the same phenomenon, powered all of the

1:25.0

science that came after him, paving the way for the invention of radio, television,

1:29.5

radar, mobile telephony and the internet. He truly was a man, perhaps the man who

1:36.8

changed everything. Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

1:51.0

Morning meal. In last week's episode it was 1863 and we sat down with you in a

1:57.8

London tavern as the rules of the beautiful game were set in stone. Where and when are we this week?

2:05.7

Hi Paul, hi fellow time travellers. Yes, last week we delved into the ancient

2:10.7

roots of Association Football or soccer as they like to call it in the rest of the world.

2:15.0

In this episode we're traveling to Edinburgh.

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