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Title: Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Louis Galison ISBN: 0-393-02001-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: 40%
Comment: "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps" is, ironically, the most oddly out-of-synch book title I've seen when it comes to reflecting the content of the work. This was a story of establishing commonality of time and measuring longitude. "Poincare's maps" occupied less than 5 pages (although I do recognize the broader application to his contribution to longitude measurement), and "Einsteins clocks" was a mechanism to bring a universally-known scientific name to a French science apologist's account of Poincare's accomplishments.
Had this book simply told the story of synchronizing clocks and learning how to measure longitude, it would have been a worthwhile read. The inclusion of and stretched comparisons to Einstein left the work disjointed, as well as leaving the reader with the impression the author has an axe to grind. Galison seems almost personally offended that Einstein dismissed Poincare as a scientific relic whose relevance had faded.
I would recommend the 40% of this book that dealt with time and longitude. 2/5 seems an appropriate rating...
Rating: 3
Summary: At Last!
Comment: True, the title of the book is a bit decieving, since it does not specifially talk much about Poincare's maps..and keeps the audience wondering and wanting more in that section. Similarly this is not a book to learn much about Relativity either. However, I think a book like such was much awaited. For the first time someone has done the folowing:
1. Taken the mystic out of Einstien, and showed him a man of his time.
2. Made us understand that why Einstien thought so persistently about simultaniety.
3. How the Physicist Einstien was also a product of his training at the Patent office. This is an angle which no one touched before.
The book is unique, and should be read by whoever is a good student of Einstien and his theories. As it does bring him out of the clouds, and puts him back on earth, and makes him human again. Which is a must have.
Rating: 5
Summary: An intriguing and enthusiastically recommended coverage
Comment: Einstein and Poincare were two inventors who made parallel attempts to harness time and helped create the science of relativity; but no single study has previously drawn such close links between the efforts of the young German physicist Einstein and the mathematician Poincare. Peter Galison's Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps expertly examines the achievements and details of each, and in doing so incorporats new information drawn from forgotten patents, rare photos, and archived materials to chart a little-known but inherently fascinating race toward a theory of time. An important addition to school and community library History of Science collections, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps is an exciting, intriguing and enthusiastically recommended coverage.
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Title: Isaac Newton by JAMES GLEICK ISBN: 0375422331 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare ISBN: 0486602214 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1952 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375412883 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics by Peter Galison ISBN: 0226279170 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire ISBN: 0309085497 Publisher: Joseph Henry Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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