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Einstein's War by Stanley, Matthew
Category: Science
'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning Copenhagen In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German ...Show more
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley
Category: Science
The birth of a world-changing idea, relativity, and how it was shaped by the social upheaval and bloody horror of the First World War Einstein's ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. It was because of two wars. The first was the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that ...Show more
Einstein's War - How Relativity Triumphed amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I by Matthew Stanley
Category: Social Sciences
Winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize"Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington PostThe birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbathEinstein's War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. T ...Show more
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