Einstein and the Generations of Science

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 spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

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Einstein and the Generations of Science

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 spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

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Einstein and the Generations of Science

Einstein and the Generations of Science

by David Abshire
Einstein and the Generations of Science

Einstein and the Generations of Science

by David Abshire

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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 spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351312066
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/29/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 390
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

David Abshire

Table of Contents

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
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