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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps Empires of Time

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ISBN-10: 0393326047

ISBN-13: 9780393326048

Edition: 2004

Authors: Peter Galison

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Peter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincareacute;'s Maps: Empires of Time, How Experiments End, and Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics,and other books.

Acknowledgments
Synchrony
Einstein's Times
A Critical Opalescence
Order of Argument
Coal, Chaos, and Convention
Coal
Chaos
Convention
The Electric Worldmap
Standards of Space and Time
Times, Trains, and Telegraphs
Marketing Time
Measuring Society
Time into Space
Battle over Neutrality
Poincare's Maps
Time, Reason, Nation
Decimalizing Time
Of Time and Maps
Mission to Quito
Etherial Time
A Triple Conjunction
Einstein's Clocks
Materializing Time
Theory-Machines
Patent Truths
Clocks First
Radio Eiffel
The Place of Time
Without Mechanics
Two Modernisms
Looking Up, Looking Down
Notes
Bibliography
Index