2nd Edition

Einstein and the Generations of Science

Edited By David Abshire Copyright 1982
433 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

390 Pages
by Routledge

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to... Read more
1: The Social Roots OF Einstein’s Theory OF Relativity; 2: Social, Generational, AND Philosophical Sources OF Quantum Theory; 3: Generational Movements AND “Scientific Revolutions”; 4: The Conflict of Scientific Schools

Biography

David Abshire