Einstein and Our World (The Control of Nature) - Softcover

Cassidy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0391038753 ISBN 13: 9780391038752

Publisher: Humanities Press, 1995

Synopsis

Born in Germany during the imperial era in 1879, Albert Einstein died seventy-six years later in Princeton, New Jersey, one decade after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan.

While most available works on Einstein trace the origins and evolution of his views and theories, David Cassidy focuses on Einstein's influence within and far beyond the confines of physics. Following a brief, nontechnical explanation of the significance of Einstein's achievements, Dr. Cassidy explores how Einstein's work spread throughout the physical sciences and led to a new conception of the theoretical physicist. It then engendered a new understanding of the physical world and ultimately provided the framework for a new and profound intellectual and technical mastery of nature. Dr. Cassidy takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the uses and abuses of Einstein's relativity theory in such widely diverse settings as political ideology, philosophy of science, literature, art religion, and the individual in an age of dictatorship, genocide, and weapons of mass destruction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Humanities Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0391038753
• ISBN 13: 9780391038752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100