Richard Staley
Author of Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution
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"This book sets the relativity revolution into the larger context of contemporary physics, its material and intellectual culture as well as its sociology. It helps us to understand the scientific revolution as the outcome of the transformation of shared knowledge. This is a truly important show more contribution to the history of science, makes for delightful reading, and should not be missed by anyone interested in Einstein." Juumlet;rgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Richard Staley is associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. show less
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I was only really interested in the Michelson section, chapters 1 and 2 (of 10). I kept reading because maybe I'd learn something cool later, but eh.
I wasn't a huge fan overall. Obviously this was meant solely as an academic book, but because it spends so much time replying to other works it can't really stand on its own. I had to pull out some textbooks for the optics and relativity stuff, but I'm willing to blame that on me not being in academics any more.
Halfway through, when the focus show more shifted to relativity, Staley started just quoting German papers wholesale, and I'm not sure why he didn't just reference them in the footnotes of his attempts at translation. Kind of a waste of page space.
It would probably be more cohesive if I kept up with physics as it was accepted in 1900, but with only an undergrad education I would have liked more context. show less
I wasn't a huge fan overall. Obviously this was meant solely as an academic book, but because it spends so much time replying to other works it can't really stand on its own. I had to pull out some textbooks for the optics and relativity stuff, but I'm willing to blame that on me not being in academics any more.
Halfway through, when the focus show more shifted to relativity, Staley started just quoting German papers wholesale, and I'm not sure why he didn't just reference them in the footnotes of his attempts at translation. Kind of a waste of page space.
It would probably be more cohesive if I kept up with physics as it was accepted in 1900, but with only an undergrad education I would have liked more context. show less
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