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  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    by Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Testing Einstein

    One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity

    Edited by Brian C. Odom, Daniel Kennefick ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventional—and overly simplistic—understanding.Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its historical contexts as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Testing Einstein embraces not only the individual ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Picturing Science, Producing Art

    Edited by Peter Galison, Caroline A. Jones ...
    Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Scientific Authorship

    Credit and Intellectual Property in Science

    Edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Galison ...
    Since the seventeenth century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically. In this ambitious volume of new work, Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison have brought together historians of science, literary historians, and historians of the book. Together they track the changing nature and identity of the author in science, both historically and conceptually, from the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The View from Above

    The Science of Social Space

    by Jeanne Haffner ...
    The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Quantum Mechanics

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Roots of Special Relativity

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by Robert M. Hazen ...
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  • Scale

    The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

    by Geoffrey West ...
    **"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalFrom one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.**Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent ... Read more

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  • The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    by Ananyo Bhattacharya ...
    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Measure

    The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

    by James Vincent ...
    **Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & TechnologyNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Economist"Quietly thrilling.…The story of humans measuring things is no less than the story of civilization." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book ReviewA vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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