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Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

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Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery - Herbert, Christopher
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One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing 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." ...

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Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery 2001, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226327334

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Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery 2001, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226327327

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