Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps : empires of time / by Peter Galison.
Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps : empires of time / by Peter Galison.
Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps : empires of time / by Peter Galison.
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New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
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N529/28
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Synchrony -- Einstein's Times -- A Critical Opalescence -- Order of Argument -- Ch. 2. Coal, Chaos, and Convention -- Coal -- Chaos -- Convention -- Ch. 3. The Electric Worldmap -- Standards of Space and Time -- Times, Trains, and Telegraphs -- Marketing Time -- Measuring Society -- Time into...
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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2003.
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"The historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time."--BOOK JACKET....
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Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps : empires of time / by Peter Galison.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N529/28
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74VK26G8bbGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK26G8bbGA
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ISBN
0393020010
9780393020014
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529
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991017957299702626
