The Comparative Reception of Relativity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comparative Reception of Relativity write by T.F Glick. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Comparative Reception of Relativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy, and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we could muster. Only general guidelines were given to the authors: to treat the special or general theories, or both, hopefully in a multidisciplinary setting, to examine the popular reception of relativity, or Einstein's personal impact, or to survey all these topics. In a previous volume, on the 2 comparative reception of Darwinism, one of us devised a detailed set of guidelines which in general were not followed. In our opinion, the studies in this collection offer greater comparability, no doubt because relativity by its nature and its complexity offers a sharper, more easily bounded target. As in the Darwinism volume, this book concludes with an essay intended to draw together in comparative perspective some of many themes addressed by the participants.
The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
The Comparative Reception of Darwinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comparative Reception of Darwinism write by Thomas F. Glick. This book was released on 1988-09-24. The Comparative Reception of Darwinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The majority of the chapters deal with the reception accorded Darwin's work in specific countries: England, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and the Arab countries. Several chapters, however, also investigate the response to Darwinism made by specific social circles--such as social scientists in Russia and the United States
Relativity Theory
Relativity Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relativity Theory write by L. Pearce Williams. This book was released on 1968. Relativity Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Studies in the History of General Relativity
Studies in the History of General Relativity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in the History of General Relativity write by Jean Eisenstaedt. This book was released on 1992-02-07. Studies in the History of General Relativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the considerations of the two dozen papers are the reception and development of Einstein's theory of general relativity in various institutions around the world; conceptual issues of the theory, especially themes, concepts, and principles associated with his theory of gravity; a number of tech
The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World
The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World write by T.F Glick. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside. Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history of scientific ideas.
