TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herbert,Christopher
TI  - Victorian relativity: radical thought and scientific discovery 
SN  - 9780226327365 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BD221 .H47 2001eb
U1  - 115 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Relativity
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Relativité
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Connaissance, Théorie de la
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Relativiteitstheorie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Radicalisme
KW  - Victoriaanse tijd
KW  - Relativismus
KW  - swd
KW  - Wirklichkeit
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
KW  - Erkenntnis
KW  - Relativität
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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