Victorian relativity
Herbert, Christopher.
Victorian relativity radical thought and scientific discovery / [electronic resource] : Christopher Herbert. - University of Chicago Press, c2001. - 1 online resource (xv, 302 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
Acknowledgments; Preface: Relativity and Ideology; Introduction: The Conspiracy against Truth; Chapter 1: Difference, Unity, Proliferation; Chapter 2: Relativity and Authority; Chapter 3: The Relativity of Logic; Chapter 4: Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine; Chapter 5: Frazer and Einstein; Afterword: Protagoras and History-Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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 of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity p.
9780226327365 (electronic bk.) 0226327361 (electronic bk.)
Geschichte 1800-1900
Relativity--History--19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of--History--19th century.
History.
Relativité--Histoire--19e siècle.
Connaissance, Théorie de la--Histoire--19e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Relativiteitstheorie.
Radicalisme.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Relativismus.
Wirklichkeit.
Naturwissenschaften.
Erkenntnis.
Relativität.
Electronic books.
BD221 / .H47 2001eb
115
Victorian relativity radical thought and scientific discovery / [electronic resource] : Christopher Herbert. - University of Chicago Press, c2001. - 1 online resource (xv, 302 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
Acknowledgments; Preface: Relativity and Ideology; Introduction: The Conspiracy against Truth; Chapter 1: Difference, Unity, Proliferation; Chapter 2: Relativity and Authority; Chapter 3: The Relativity of Logic; Chapter 4: Karl Pearson and the Human Form Divine; Chapter 5: Frazer and Einstein; Afterword: Protagoras and History-Writing; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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 of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity p.
9780226327365 (electronic bk.) 0226327361 (electronic bk.)
Geschichte 1800-1900
Relativity--History--19th century.
Knowledge, Theory of--History--19th century.
History.
Relativité--Histoire--19e siècle.
Connaissance, Théorie de la--Histoire--19e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Relativiteitstheorie.
Radicalisme.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Relativismus.
Wirklichkeit.
Naturwissenschaften.
Erkenntnis.
Relativität.
Electronic books.
BD221 / .H47 2001eb
115