Postcard from Edinburgh: A Towering Likeness of James Clerk Maxwell

Our friend and colleague Michael Flannery is, as you know, in Edinburgh, Scottland, conducting research on Wallace and Darwin. He sent along these two neat snaps:

Mike writes:

One of the giants of 19th-century science is James Clerk Maxwell, a mathematical physicist who discovered the theory of electromagnetism, which arguably founded modern physics. Albert Einstein said of him, "Since Maxwell's time, physical reality has been thought of as represented by continuous fields, and not capable of...