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Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, absolute framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth century created new and troubling inconsistencies. In 1905, Einstein's name became synonymous with genius when his Special Theory of Relativity challenged old concepts in physics. Hertz, Lorentz, Mach, Poincare, and others illustrated the ideas that so captivated Albert Einstein and shook our conventional ideas about space and time. The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history's most successful journeys--four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.

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John T. Sanders teaches philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received two BAs from Purdue University and an MA and PhD from Boston University. Previously, Sanders has served as chair of the Department of Philosophy at RIT three times and has been awarded the Eisenhart Annual Award for Outstanding Teaching twice. He is the author and editor of several books and has written more than thirty articles on philosophy; he has also given lectures in the United States and in Europe. Edwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates. Mr. Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.

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