Preface by author, dated 1973. Number Line: 74 75 76 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. This "absorbing intellectual history" introduces the theoreticians: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, deBroglie and others. 366 pp. plus Index. Brown cloth covers have pale blue text on spine only, top edge dyed a similar blue. Illustrated with B/W photographs. Text block is pristine and stiff to open. Spine ends are very slightly rubbed and top corners are bumped. Unclipped ($12.95) DJ has light extremity wear, darkened spine. An interesting book indeed! Bookseller's Inventory # 143628.

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Title

Einstein and the Generations of Science

Publisher

Basic Books Inc., Publishers, New York

Publication Date

1974

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465018718

ISBN 13

9780465018710

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

True First Edition, 1st Printing

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

About the Author

Lewis S. Feuer (1912–2002) was professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He taught sociology and philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Vermont, and the University of Toronto.

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