Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

by Christopher Herbert

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One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226327329

ISBN13:9780226327327

Release Date:June 2001

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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