Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps

By Peter Galison,

Book cover of Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time

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A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps 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…

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