The Universal One

About this book

Electricity becomes the underlying motion of the universe in Walter Russell's ambitious system. Matter, light and the elements emerge from rhythmic waves, and familiar scientific categories are redrawn as parts of a single cosmic design.

Russell's richly illustrated 1926 treatise combines alternative physics, metaphysical speculation and a proposed arrangement of the elements. His diagrams are often striking, full of spirals, cycles and geometrical relationships that promise to make nature visible as one continuous process. These theories stand outside accepted physics, but the book remains a remarkable record of a visionary artist attempting to explain the entire material world.