Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison

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

Peter Galison

389 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 scie...

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