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Peter Galison

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

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A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others....Galison has unearthed fascinating material (New York Times).Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-32604-8
  • EAN: 9780393326048
  • Produktnummer: 19436940
  • Verlag: W W Norton & Co
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 389 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.8 cm 454 g
  • Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor


Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor for the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Max Planck Prize, as well as the Pfizer Prize for the Best Book in the History of Science for Image and Logic.

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