Light Years by Brian Clegg, Piatkus, £14.99, ISBN 0749921978
LIGHT’S properties often seem mysterious to the point of being unfathomable.
Yet in this extraordinary book Brian Clegg manages to explain them through the
lives of those so fixated with light that they have shaped our perception of it.
All the usual gang are there: Galileo, Newton, Faraday and Einstein. But other
players emerge to take their rightful places among the Lichtmeisters:
the German poet Goethe, Renaissance artist Brunelleschi and the French
Impressionist Seurat, to name but three.
Clegg’s accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of light’s
disciples with…
