The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

Panek, Richard

ISBN 10: 1841152773 / ISBN 13: 9781841152776

Published by Fourth Estate, 2005

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Type: Book N.B. Damage to foredge of middle pages, content unaffected. Otherwise book is ini very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841152773
• ISBN 13: 9781841152776
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • PSYCHOLOGY

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Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Seeing and Believing. In clear and vivid prose, Richard Panek examines two of historys greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud, to offer a fresh portrait of the extraordinary scientific developments of the 20th-century.At the dawn of the 20th-century there was a widespread assumption in scientific circles that the pursuit of knowledge was nearing its end and that all available evidence had been exhausted. By 1916, however, both Einstein and Freud had exploded this myth by leading exploration into the science of the Invisible and Unconscious, using scientific data that we cannot see. These men were more than just contemporaries their separate pursuits were in fact complementary. Freuds science of Psychoanalysis found its cosmological counterpart in the Astronomy of Invisible Light that Einstein pioneered. Together they questioned the inconsistencies of Newtons ordered cosmos to reveal a different reality, a natural order that was anything but ordered, a cosmos that was volatile and vast an organism alive in time. Einstein and Freud inspired a fundamental shift in the history of human thought, transforming forever our understanding of the world and our place within it. In accessible and stylish prose, Panek chronicles a scientific revolution that is still in progress today.

About the Author

Richard Panek has written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Esquire and the Chicago Tribune, and is a contributing writer at Elle and Mirabella. He is the winner of a PEN award for short fiction (which has been broadcast on National Public Radio). He is also the author of Waterloo Diamonds, a social history of an Iowa community told through it's baseball fortunes.