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100 1 $aGalison, Peter,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85812057
245 10 $aEinstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps :$bempires of time /$cby Peter Galison.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a389 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-370) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tSynchrony -- $tEinstein's Times -- $tA Critical Opalescence -- $tOrder of Argument -- $gCh. 2.$tCoal, Chaos, and Convention -- $tCoal -- $tChaos -- $tConvention -- $gCh. 3.$tThe Electric Worldmap -- $tStandards of Space and Time -- $tTimes, Trains, and Telegraphs -- $tMarketing Time -- $tMeasuring Society -- $tTime into Space -- $tBattle over Neutrality -- $gCh. 4.$tPoincare's Maps -- $tTime, Reason, Nation -- $tDecimalizing Time -- $tOf Time and Maps -- $tMission to Quito -- $tEtherial Time -- $tA Triple Conjunction -- $gCh. 5.$tEinstein's Clocks -- $tMaterializing Time -- $tTheory-Machines -- $tPatent Truths -- $tClocks First -- $tRadio Eiffel -- $gCh. 6.$tThe Place of Time -- $tWithout Mechanics -- $tTwo Modernisms -- $tLooking Up, Looking Down.
520 1 $a"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, a 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 Poincare, 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." "The 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTime.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135395
650 0 $aRelativity (Physics)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112497
600 10 $aEinstein, Albert,$d1879-1955.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022889
600 10 $aPoincaré, Henri,$d1854-1912.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50020168
852 00 $bmil$hQB209$i.G35 2003