Galison, Peter Louis

Einstein's clocks and Poincar©♭'s maps : empires of time / - 1st ed - New York : W.W. Norton, c2003 - 389 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

leisure reading

At the beginning of the 20th century, just as industry and government were anticipating the immanent coordination of time around the globe, says Galison (history of science and of physics, Harvard U.), the notion of time and the ability to coordinate two clocks at a distance, were being demolished in the nexus of physics, technology, and philosophy

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Time
Relativity (Physics)

529 W.W.N 2003 A059 Or.