Einstein in Spain : : Relativity and the Recovery of Science / / Thomas F. Glick.
From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after. Thomas Glick explores this "recovery of science" by focusing on the national discussion prov...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Spanish Science and the Reception of Relativity
- Chapter Two. The Einstein Phenomenon
- Chapter Three. Barcelona: Einstein and Catalan Nationalism
- Chapter Four. Madrid: The Two Aristocracies
- Chapter Five. The Debate over Relativity in the 1920s
- Chapter Six. Relativity and Spanish Engineers: The Scientific Middle Class
- Chapter Seven. The Slave at the Sermon: Einstein and the Spanish Intelligentsia
- Chapter Eight. Flow and Transformation of Ideas
- Chapter Nine. After Einstein's Visit
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index