Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field by Nancy Forbes

Author:Nancy Forbes
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2014-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

I have leapt the bars of distance—left the life that late I led—

I remember years and labors as a tale that I have read,

Yet my heart is hot within me, for I feel the gentle power

Of the spirits that still love me, waiting for this sacred hour

Yes—I know the forms that meet me, but are phantoms of the brain,

For they walk in mortal bodies, and they have not ceased from pain.

Oh! those signs of human weakness, left behind for ever now,

Dearer far to me than glories round a fancied seraph's brow.

Oh! the old familiar voices! Oh! the patient waiting eyes!

Let me live with them in dreamland, while the world in slumber lies.15

Back at Cambridge, he heard that his application had been successful. At the end of the summer term, he packed up his papers, color top, magnets, prisms, and the rest of his experimental paraphernalia, and, with fond memories, left Cambridge for Glenlair. It was the first time he had returned home without his father being there to welcome him. He spent much of the summer dealing with the estate, learning its detailed workings, and planning how he might fulfill his father's wish for more improvements when funds allowed. From time to time he entertained relations and Cambridge friends, but it was the loneliest episode in his life. In seven months, he left Glenlair only once; that was to make a short trip to Belfast to arrange for his cousin William Dyce Cay to study engineering under William Thomson's brother James. He managed to fit in a little scientific work and built a version of his color box rugged enough to withstand the journey to Aberdeen. The time for that journey approached, and part of his preparation was to draft what he called “a solemn manifesto to the Natural Philosophers of the North,”16 his inaugural speech, something that was then expected of all new professors. In November 1856, he left for the Granite City.

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