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Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps : empires of time / Peter Galison.

By: Galison, Peter Louis.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2003Edition: 1st ed.Description: 389 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0393020010.Subject(s): Time | Relativity (Physics) | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912 | Time | Relativity (Physics) | Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 | Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912DDC classification: 529
Contents:
Synchrony -- Coal, chaos, and convention -- The electric worldmap -- Poincaré's maps -- Einstein's clocks -- The place of time.
Summary: Explains how Albert Einstein and Henri Poincare helped unlock the true meaning of time and the revolutionary science of relativity.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-370) and index.

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Explains how Albert Einstein and Henri Poincare helped unlock the true meaning of time and the revolutionary science of relativity.

Synchrony -- Coal, chaos, and convention -- The electric worldmap -- Poincaré's maps -- Einstein's clocks -- The place of time.

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