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| | Amazon.com: Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery: Books: Christopher Herbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity produced revolutionary changes in one field after another in the nineteenth century. |
 | | Surveying a long line of thinkers including Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Alexander Bain, W. Clifford, W. Jevons, Karl Pearson, James Frazer, and Einstein himself, Victorian Relativity argues that the early relativity movement was bound closely to motives of political and cultural reform and, in particular, to radical critiques of the ideology of authoritarianism. |
 | | One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein in 1905; another is that scientific relativity has no significant connection with ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativism. |
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