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| Summary: | One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. Victorian Relativity challenges these assumptions, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle "the negation of the absolute" and set itself under the militant banner of "relativity."Christopher Herbert shows that the idea of relativity page
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780226327365
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