https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/af58e47ea2fce0742c9989474d98ea48.png d31adbcb9d6ac28a5ba6ce2c6d26e765 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Geschiedenis Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-3407-9447-0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GES1025 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Peter Galison Title A name given to the resource Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sceptre Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, <em>Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps </em>is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others....Galison has unearthed fascinating material" (New York Times).<br /><br /> Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicist experimenting with measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations; and the renowned mathematician Henri Poincaré, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents. Each found that to understand the newly global world, he had to determine whether there existed a pure time in which simultaneity was absolute or whether time was relative.<br /><br /> Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time. 40 b/w illustrations<br /> REMARK: The author discusses this book on Youtube:<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpFIKpWRDH4 Language A language of the resource Engels