EAN: 9780241985618

EINSTEINS WAR - MATTHEW STANLEY KARTONIERT (TB)

'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest
epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn  author of Tony Award-winning
CopenhagenIn 1916  Arthur Eddington  a war-weary British astronomer  opened a letter written by
an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper
outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then Einstein's masterpiece of
time and space had been trapped behind the physical and ideological lines of battle 
unknown.Einstein's name is now synonymous with 'genius'  but it was not an easy road. He spent
a decade creating relativity and his ascent to global celebrity owed much to against-the-odds
international collaboration  including Eddington's globe-spanning expedition of 1919 - two
years before they finally met. We usually think of scientific discovery as a flash of
individual inspiration  but here we see it is the result of hard work  gambles and wrong
turns.Einstein's War is a celebration of what science can offer when bigotry and nationalism
are defeated. Using previously unknown sources and written like a thriller  it shows relativity
being built brick-by-brick in front of us  as it happened 100 years ago.'Riveting . . . Stanley
lets us share the excitement a hundred years later in this entertaining and gripping book. It's
a must read if you ever wondered how Einstein became 'Einstein'' Manjit Kumar  author of
Quantum

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