Victorian relativity (Record no. 51420)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226327334
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Distributor Name :Segment Book Distributors
Distributor address :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi
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Bill Date :29/06/2019
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Classification number 115 HER
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Personal name Herbert, Christopher
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Title Victorian relativity
Remainder of title : radical thought and scientific discovery
Statement of responsibility, etc / Christopher Herbert
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Chicago
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Chicago Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc ©2001.
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Extent xv, 302 pages
Dimensions 24cm.
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Price amount 2419
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Contents note 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.
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Summary, etc <br/>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
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Metaphysics
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Relativity -- History -- 19th century.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Knowledge, Theory
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Relativismus
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Personal name Herbert, Christopher
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 02/07/2019 Segment Book Distributors 2419.00   115 HER 26434 02/07/2019 02/07/2019 Books
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