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Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time / Peter Galison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galison, Peter, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Relativity (Physics).
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Einstein, Albert.
- Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912.
- Poincaré, Henri.
- Physical Description:
- 389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]
- Summary:
- Esteemed historian of science Galison has culled new information from photos, 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. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- Synchrony
- Coal, chaos
- The electric worldmap
- Poincaré's maps
- Einstein's clocks
- The place of time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393020010
- OCLC:
- 51177432
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