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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780241376584 |
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Purchased |
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Prism Books, Kadavanthra, Kochi |
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English |
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530.092 |
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STA/EI |
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Stanley,Matthew |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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EINSTEIN'S WAR : How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World |
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1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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UK |
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Viking |
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2019/01/01 |
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390 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution.<br/><br/>In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then Einstein's masterpiece of time and space had been trapped behind the physical and ideological lines of battle, unknown.<br/><br/>Einstein's name is now synonymous with 'genius', but it was not an easy road. He spent a decade creating relativity and his ascent to international celebrity, which saw him on the front of papers around the world in 1919, also owed much to Eddington - who he only met after the war - and to international collaboration. We usually think of scientific discovery as a flash of individual inspiration, whereas here we see it is the result of hard work, gambles and wrong turns and all the while subject to the petty concerns of nations, religions and individuals.<br/><br/>Einstein's War teaches us about science through history, and the physics is more accessible as a result - we see relativity built brick-by-brick in front of us, as it happened 100 years ago. |
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The world of science before the war --<br/>Science across nations --<br/>The wars begin --<br/>Increasing isolation --<br/>The collapse of international science --<br/>A vital victory --<br/>To cross the trenches --<br/>The borders of the universe --<br/>The resistance to relativity --<br/>Angels of the revolution --<br/>The test --<br/>The relativity circus --<br/>Epilogue: The legacy of Einstein and Eddington |
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Physics, Biography Of Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 |
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Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 |
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Relativity (Physics) |
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Communication in science |
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Lending |
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