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1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 page. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Relativity -- History -- 19th century.
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Relativity. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 19th century.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Geschichte 1800-1900 |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Herbert, Christopher. Victorian relativity. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001 0226327329 (DLC) 00012177 (OCoLC)45420159 |
| ISBN |
9780226327365 (electronic book) |
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0226327361 (electronic book) |
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0226327337 |
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9780226327334 |
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0226327329 |
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9780226327327 |
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0226327337 |
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9780226327334 |
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