Victorian relativity
Herbert, Christopher
Victorian relativity : radical thought and scientific discovery / Christopher Herbert - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001. - xv, 302 pages 24cm.
Acknowledgments; Preface: Relativity and Ideology; Introduction: The Conspiracy against Truth; Chapter 1: Difference, Unity, Proliferation; Chapter 2: Relativity and Authority; Chapter 3: The Relativity of Logic; Chapter 4: Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine; Chapter 5: Frazer and Einstein; Afterword: Protagoras and History-Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity page
9780226327334
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Metaphysics
Time
Relativity -- History -- 19th century.
Knowledge, Theory
Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.
Relativismus
115 HER
Victorian relativity : radical thought and scientific discovery / Christopher Herbert - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001. - xv, 302 pages 24cm.
Acknowledgments; Preface: Relativity and Ideology; Introduction: The Conspiracy against Truth; Chapter 1: Difference, Unity, Proliferation; Chapter 2: Relativity and Authority; Chapter 3: The Relativity of Logic; Chapter 4: Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine; Chapter 5: Frazer and Einstein; Afterword: Protagoras and History-Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity page
9780226327334
Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi
Metaphysics
Time
Relativity -- History -- 19th century.
Knowledge, Theory
Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.
Relativismus
115 HER
