Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time, (Paperback)

from jadelson6

This book had a lot of interesting information, but ultimately I'm not sure what point the author was trying to make. Many long passages really require some knowledge of physics to fully follow. Sometimes it feels like an academic book marketed as popular non-fiction.

from mbmackay

Overdone - you can see why some books end up in the remainder bins. But interesting facts about local times & how late time zones became accepted (1911 in Paris). Read Oct 2006

from jadelson6

This book had a lot of interesting information, but ultimately I'm not sure what point the author was trying to make. Many long passages really require some knowledge of physics to fully follow. Sometimes it feels like an academic book marketed as popular non-fiction.

from hcubic

When I bought this book, I didn't realize how complementary to Alder's "The Measure of All Things" it would turn out to be. I thought that Poincare's "maps" referred to were his geometric depictions of deterministic chaotic systems, which he was first to discover, and the book was going to be lar...

from neurodrew

This was an extremely interesting book about the influence of the efforts to synchronize time for the purposes of longitudinal mapping and railway management on the theorization of Einstein and Poincaré. The author notes that both scientists worked in venues where electromechanical clock synchron...