Einsteins Opponents

Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107653894
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Opponents written by Milena Wazeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the contemporary literature created by Einstein's detractors. Exploring the arguments and strategies, social contexts, and motivations of Einstein's detractors, and providing unique insights into the dynamics of scientific controversies, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.

Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017440
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Opponents written by Milena Wazeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the ferocious opposition which once surrounded the theory of relativity, this fascinating account details the strategies and motivations of Einstein's detractors. A unique insight into the dynamics of scientific controversies, ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.

Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107598065
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Opponents written by Milena Wazeck and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the contemporary literature created by Einstein's detractors. Exploring the arguments and strategies, social contexts, and motivations of Einstein's detractors, and providing unique insights into the dynamics of scientific controversies, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.

Author : Bruce J. Hillman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015699
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Stalked Einstein written by Bruce J. Hillman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany’s most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler’s chief advisor on physics, had an impact far exceeding what the scientific community felt at the time. Indeed, their mutual antagonism affected the direction of science long after 1933, when Einstein took flight to America and changed the history of two nations. The Man Who Stalked Einstein details the tense relationship between Einstein and Lenard, their ideas and actions, during the eventful period between World War I and World War II.

Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107665750
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Einstein's Opponents written by Milena Wazeck and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald James Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004337
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein, History, and Other Passions written by Gerald James Holton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture."--Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture."--Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe "[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science...I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century."--Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.

Author : Hans Israel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein written by Hans Israel and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of the 1931 collection of "anti-relativity" essays, originally published in German under the title "Hundert Autoren Gegen Einstein". It provides fascinating insights into the early public reception of Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity.

Author : Jan Guichelaar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319983377
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willem de Sitter written by Jan Guichelaar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein. Authored by a physicist and skilled writer, the book gives a beautiful and accessible description of the physics debated by Einstein and de Sitter, as well as the latter's alternative cosmological model, later known as the De Sitter Universe. But this is just part of a fascinating and varied life story involving numerous contributions to astronomy, as well as many places and personalities of early 20th century physics. The book will appeal to all those interested in astronomy and physics and their history.

Author : Alexander Vucinich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804742092
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein and Soviet Ideology written by Alexander Vucinich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union—the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism. It describes how Soviet attitudes toward Einstein's theory of relativity changed again and again during the eras of Soviet history: pre-Stalin, Stalin, post-Stalin, and perestroika.

Author : Karl Hess
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9814463701
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein Was Right! written by Karl Hess and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All modern books on Einstein emphasize the genius of his relativity theory and the corresponding corrections and extensions of the ancient space-time concept. However, Einstein's opposition to the use of probability in the laws of nature and particularly in the laws of quantum mechanics is criticized and often portrayed as outdated. The author of E