THE INVISIBLE CENTURY: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes - Softcover

Panek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841152781 ISBN 13: 9781841152783

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2009

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A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary work of two of the century’s greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud.

At the turn of the century there was a widespread assumption in scientific circles that the pursuit of knowledge was nearing its end and that all available evidence had been exhausted. However, by 1916 both Einstein and Freud had exploded the myth by leading exploration into the science of the invisible and the unconscious. These men were more than just contemporaries – their separate pursuits were in fact complementary. Freud’s science of psychoanalysis found its cosmological counterpart in the Astronomy of Invisible Light pioneered by Einstein. Together they questioned the little inconsistencies of Newton’s ordered cosmos to reveal a different reality, a natural order that was anything but ordered, a cosmos that was volatile and vast – an organism alive in time. These men inspired a fundamental shift in the history of human thought. They began a revolution that is still in progress and provided one of the past century’s greatest contributions to the history of science.

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Richard Panek has written for ‘The New York Times Magazine’, ‘Outside’, ‘Esquire’ and the ‘Chicago Tribune’, and is a contributing writer at ‘Elle’ and ‘Mirabella’. He is the winner of a PEN award for short fiction. He is also the author of ‘Waterloo Diamonds’, a social history of an Iowa community told through it’s baseball fortunes, ‘Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope’, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe’.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1841152781
• ISBN 13: 9781841152783
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 271
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