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Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step,... Read Full Overview

A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincar 's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's... Read Full Overview