01938nam a22002897a 4500 51420 51420 20190702113843.0 190702b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780226327334 :Segment Book Distributors :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi :58258 :29/06/2019 115 HER Herbert, Christopher Victorian relativity : radical thought and scientific discovery / Christopher Herbert Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001. xv, 302 pages 24cm. 2419 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 Metaphysics Time Relativity -- History -- 19th century. Knowledge, Theory Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century. Relativismus Herbert, Christopher BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-07-02 Segment Book Distributors 2419.00 0 115 HER 26434 2019-07-02 00:00:00 2019-07-02 BOOK