ISBN:
0674004337
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 240 S
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Ill., graph. Darst
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23 cm
Edition:
1st Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed
DDC:
306.450904
Keywords:
Einstein, Albert Knowledge
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Science
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Science Study and teaching
;
Science Social aspects
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History
;
Naturwissenschaften
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Einstein, Albert 1879-1955
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. : What place for science at the "end of the modern era"? ; The public image of science ; "Doing one's damnedest" : the evolution of trust in scientific findings ; Imagination in science ; Understanding the history of science -- pt. 2. Einstein's influence on the culture of our time ; Einstein and the goal of science ; Of physics, love, and other passions : the letters of Albert and Mileva ; "What, precisely, is thinking?" : Einstein's answer.
Description / Table of Contents:
Literaturangaben
Note:
This ed. originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996
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Previous ed.: Woodbury, N.Y : American Institute of Physics Press, 1995
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