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 solder come alive as characters, along with
physicists, engineers, technicians and others....Galison has
unearthed fascinating material" ("New York Times"). 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 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. 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."
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