Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery

by Christopher Herbert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226327337
• ISBN13: 9780226327334
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"