Peter Galison introduces us to the world that Einstein grew up in, and subsequently changed forever, with the release of his earth shattering theory of special relativity.
Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science…
Albert Einstein était un praticien de la physique qui travaillait au Bureau des brevets de Berne en un moment où les ingénieurs cherchaient à synchroniser toutes les horloges de Suisse. Henri Poincaré était, lui aussi, un praticien que son poste au…