- EAN13
- 9782366596076
- Éditeur
- Literature and Knowledge Publishing
- Date de publication
- 12/04/2018
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought
Arthur Eddington
Literature and Knowledge Publishing
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9782366596076
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"Every one now admits that the Ptolemaic system, which regarded the earth as
the centre of all things, belongs to the dark ages. But to our dismay we have
discovered that the same geocentric outlook still permeates modern physics
through and through, unsuspected until recently. It has been left to Einstein
to carry forward the revolution begun by Copernicus — to free our conception
of nature from the terrestrial bias imported into it by the limitations of our
earthbound experience. To achieve a more neutral point of view we have to
imagine a visit to some other heavenly body. That is a theme which has
attracted the popular novelist, and we often smile at his mistakes when sooner
or later he forgets where he is supposed to be and endows his voyagers with
some purely terrestrial appanage impossible on the star they are visiting. But
scientific men, who have not the novelist's licence, have made the same
blunder..."
the centre of all things, belongs to the dark ages. But to our dismay we have
discovered that the same geocentric outlook still permeates modern physics
through and through, unsuspected until recently. It has been left to Einstein
to carry forward the revolution begun by Copernicus — to free our conception
of nature from the terrestrial bias imported into it by the limitations of our
earthbound experience. To achieve a more neutral point of view we have to
imagine a visit to some other heavenly body. That is a theme which has
attracted the popular novelist, and we often smile at his mistakes when sooner
or later he forgets where he is supposed to be and endows his voyagers with
some purely terrestrial appanage impossible on the star they are visiting. But
scientific men, who have not the novelist's licence, have made the same
blunder..."
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