Victorian Relativity – Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery : Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0226327329
ISBN-13
9780226327327
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 1st, 2001
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
558 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.00 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900History of ideasHistory of ideas
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This text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms.
This text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms. It unearths a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity". By drawing on the works of such thinkers as Charles Darwin, Karl Pearson, James Frazer and Einstein himself, Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity produced changes in many fields during the 19th century and argues that the early relativity movement was closely bound to motives of political and cultural reform and to the radical critiques of the ideology of authoritarianism.
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