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Victorian relativity : radical thought and scientific discovery /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity page |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226327365 0226327361 0226327337 9780226327334 0226327329 9780226327327 |