TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Herbert, Christopher
AU  -  Herbert, Christopher
TI  - Victorian relativity : : radical thought and scientific discovery
SN  - 9780226327334
U1  - 115 HER 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago 
PB  - : University of Chicago Press, 
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Time
KW  - Relativity -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Knowledge, Theory
KW  - Relativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Relativismus
N1  - 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
N2  - 	
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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