01889nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801340007608200120021010000260022224500930024826000550034130000260039636500090042250503700043152005900080165000160139165000090140765000430141665000230145965000450148265000530152765000170158070000260159720190702113843.0190702b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780226327334  a:Segment Book Distributors b:22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi c:58258d:29/06/2019  a115 HER  a Herbert, Christopher  aVictorian relativity b: radical thought and scientific discoveryc/ Christopher Herbert  aChicago b: University of Chicago Press, c©2001.  axv, 302 pagesc24cm.   b2419  aAcknowledgments; 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.  a	
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  aMetaphysics  aTime  aRelativity -- History -- 19th century.  aKnowledge, Theory   aRelativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle  aKnowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.  aRelativismus  a Herbert, Christopher