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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Einstein's Clocks Poincare's Maps Empires of Time
Author: Peter Louis Galison
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 science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicis...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393020014
ISBN-10: 0393020010
Publication Date: 8/2003
Pages: 256
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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