Einstein and the Generations of Science / Edition 2

by David Abshire

Overview

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878558995
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1989
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	433
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Abshire

Table of Contents

1: The Social Roots OF Einstein’s Theory OF Relativity; 2: Social, Generational, AND Philosophical Sources OF Quantum Theory; 3: Generational Movements AND “Scientific Revolutions”; 4: The Conflict of Scientific Schools