From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 10:05:32 MDT
This is a nice piece by Freeman Dyson from the "NY Review of Books". On the surface, the book under review is an attempt to explain Einstein's vs Poincaré's place in the hall of fame of history. But many interesting points are made in the process. Among them, Kuhn's view of science as motivated by the call of the times is contrasted to the author's (Galison's) view. You will also find stories of clocks, railroads, timezones, metric systems, and more.
Clockwork Science
By Freeman J. Dyson
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16739
A review of:
Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps:Empires of Time
by Peter Galison
Norton, 389 pp., $23.95
I posted the whole review in the Virian Book Club section of the BBS
http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=57;action=display;threadid=29572
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