The Einstein Tower. An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel.

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997., 1997

0804728240 / 9780804728249

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First Edition. xv, 1 leaf, 226 pp, 1 leaf; 51 figs.; 6 tables. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. 'This book focuses on the 'Einstein Tower,' an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to attempt to verify experimentally Einstein's general theory of relativity. Freundlich, who was the first German astronomer to show a genuine interest in Einstein's theory, managed to interest his architect friend Erich Mendelsohn in designing this unique building. Freundlich's researches were not a success; he came to doubt the very theory he was attempting to prove. (Adequate technology to test Einstein's theory lay many decades in the future.) By contrast, as an experiment in modernist architecture, the building led to international fame for Mendelsohn. To develop a full historical picture of this moment in the history of science, the book interweaves several descriptive levels: the biography of Freundlich; the social context in which he interacted with teachers, co-workers, students, his patrons (including Einstein), and scientific opponents; the cognitive aspects of his attempts to verify Einstein's theory; the political milieu within the Berlin scientific research community; and a cross-national comparison of astrophysics. Other layers of the narrative include the place of the Einstein Tower in architectural history; economics and sociopsychological components of the Tower's financing and construction; the reception of the Tower and the theory; a historical examination of the Tower's research results; and the effect on Freundlich and on the work at the Tower of the National Socialists' rise to power' (Stanford University Press Web site). …

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Título
The Einstein Tower. An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy. Translated by Ann M. Hentschel.
Autor
HENTSCHEL, Klaus:
Editorial
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Año de publicación
1997
Estado
Near Fine
Sobrecubierta
Near Fine
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0804728240
ISBN 13
9780804728249
Edición
1st Edition
Impresión
1ª Impresión

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