[PDF] The Cambridge Companion To Einstein eBook

Author : Michel Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521828341

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These fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science introduce the reader to the work of Albert Einstein. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the essays explain his main contributions to physics in terms that are accessible to a general audience, including special and general relativity, quantum physics, statistical physics, and unified field theory. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings.

Author : Steven Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108548075

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In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism, cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.

Author : Peter Machamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521588416

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Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.

Author : Anthony R. DelDonna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521873584

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The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.

Author : Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521884756

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This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies.

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107161789

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Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture. This book explains how and why.

Author : Jerry B. Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139481169

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Einstein's theory of general relativity is a theory of gravity and, as in the earlier Newtonian theory, much can be learnt about the character of gravitation and its effects by investigating particular idealised examples. This book describes the basic solutions of Einstein's equations with a particular emphasis on what they mean, both geometrically and physically. Concepts such as big bang and big crunch-types of singularities, different kinds of horizons and gravitational waves, are described in the context of the particular space-times in which they naturally arise. These notions are initially introduced using the most simple and symmetric cases. Various important coordinate forms of each solution are presented, thus enabling the global structure of the corresponding space-time and its other properties to be analysed. The book is an invaluable resource both for graduate students and academic researchers working in gravitational physics.

Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521656962

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Newton's philosophical analysis of space and time /Robert Disalle --Newton's concepts of force and mass, with notes on the Laws of Motion /I. Bernard Cohen --Curvature in Newton's dynamics /J. Bruce Brackenridge and Michael Nauenberg --Methodology of the Principia /George E. Smith --Newton's argument for universal gravitation /William Harper --Newton and celestial mechanics /Curtis Wilson --Newton's optics and atomism /Alan E. Shapiro --Newton's metaphysics /Howard Stein --Analysis and synthesis in Newton's mathematical work /Niccolò Guicciardini --Newton, active powers, and the mechanical philosophy /Alan Gabbey --Background to Newton's chymistry /William Newman --Newton's alchemy /Karin Figala --Newton on prophecy and the Apocalypse /Maurizio Mamiani --Newton and eighteenth-century Christianity /Scott Mandelbrote --Newton versus Leibniz : from geomentry to metaphysics /A. Rupert Hall --Newton and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence /Domenico Bertoloni Meli.

Author : Milena Wazeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107017440

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Exploring the ferocious opposition which once surrounded the theory of relativity, this fascinating account details the strategies and motivations of Einstein's detractors. A unique insight into the dynamics of scientific controversies, ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.

Author : Robert DiSalle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139452663

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Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical development DiSalle reflects our increasing understanding of the connections between ideas of space and time and our physical knowledge. He suggests that philosophy's greatest impact on physics has come about, less by the influence of philosophical hypotheses, than by the philosophical analysis of concepts of space, time and motion, and the roles they play in our assumptions about physical objects and physical measurements. This way of thinking leads to interpretations of the work of Newton and Einstein and the connections between them. It also offers ways of looking at old questions about a priori knowledge, the physical interpretation of mathematics, and the nature of conceptual change. Understanding Space-Time will interest readers in philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and physics, as well as readers interested in the relations between physics and philosophy.