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082			_a115 HER
100			_a Herbert, Christopher
245			_aVictorian relativity _b: radical thought and scientific discovery _c/ Christopher Herbert
260			_aChicago _b: University of Chicago Press, _c©2001.
300			_axv, 302 pages _c24cm.
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505			_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.
520			_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
650			_aMetaphysics
650			_aTime
650			_aRelativity -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aKnowledge, Theory
650			_aRelativité -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
650			_aKnowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aRelativismus
700			_a Herbert, Christopher
942			_cBOOK