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Author:   Peter Galison ,  Michael Gordin ,  David Kaiser
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.930kg
ISBN:  

9780415937153

ISBN 10:   0415937159
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   26 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Einstein, Albert. On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. In Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation (1905-1911) , translated by Arthur I. Miller (Reading, PA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1981). Holton, Gerald. Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality. In Gerald Holton, ed., Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, rev. ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988). Holton, Gerald. Einstein and the Cultural Roots of Modern Science. Daedalus 127 (Winter 1998). Darrigol, Olivier. Henri Poincare's Criticism of Fin-de-siecle Electrodynamics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 26 (1995). Janssen, Michel. Reconsidering a Scientific Revolution: The Case of Einstein Versus Lorentz. Unpublished. Miller, Arthur I. The Special Relativity Theory: Einstein's Response to the Physics of 1905. In Gerald Holton and Yehudah Elkana, eds., Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982). Galison, Peter. Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time. Critical Inquiry 26 (Winter 2000). Cassidy, David. Understanding the History of Special Relativity. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 16 (1986). Pyenson, Lewis. The Relativity Revolution in Germany. In The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987). Glick, Thomas. Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity. In Thomas Glick, ed., The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1987). Goldberg, Stanley. In Defense of the Ether: The British Response to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, 1905-1911. Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 2 (1970). Warwick, Andrew. Cambridge Mathematics and Cavendish Physics: Cunningham, Campbell, and Einstein's Relativity, 1905-1911. Part I: The Uses of Theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 23 (1992).

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Peter Galison is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and a premier authority in the field. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung. His is author of numerous works, including, most recently, Picturing Science, ProducingArt (Routledge, 1998) and The Architecture of Science (MIT, 1999). Michael Gordin and David Kaiser are both at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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