Book ID: CBB000772139

Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond (2006)

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Jammer, Max (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: x + 308 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “A critical analysis of the use of this concept by philosophers of science, like Poincaré, and its significant role in inaugurating modern theoretical physics in Einstein's special theory of relativity.” (from the abstract)


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Review Callender, Craig (2008) Review of "Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 158). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stuckey, W. M.
Polak, Paweł
Sussman, Nathaniel F.
Joshua Norton
Bouton, Christophe
McDevitt, Timothy
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Time
Relativity, special
Philosophy of science
Relativity
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Cracow (Poland)
Ukraine
Poland
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Uniwersytet Lwowski (Lwów, Poland)
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