Einstein and the Generations of Science

By Lewis Samuel Feuer

Book Overview

This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance; it takes a certain intellectual climate, a decisive tension within the very fabric of society, to spur one man's potential genius into world-shaking achievement. Feuer portrays such men of high imaginative powers as Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, influenced by and influencing the social worlds in which they lived.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878558993
• ISBN13: 9780878558995
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

concentrates scientific and histporical events-ammmezzzing

I have a translated version of this book-Hebrew. It was a wonderful feeling to scan through 200 years of scientific events and how they are connected. In some cases it seems un-believable, childish, and politicized. I did not like the superlativity in the book, sometime I felt it was like a religous sermon. Generally, this book provides execelent summary of the famous scientists; and a young person, with interest in science, will understand there is nothing absolute, and the negative/positive compatetive world exist also in the science communities. Final note, a successful new theories should have friends in the circle of the decision makers-to secur funding and emotional support.