|9780822949183|A Historical Approach to Understanding Einstein’s Theory|Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe—but he didn’t do it alone. The Road to Relativity traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period (1880–1905) through Einstein’s 1905 breakthrough and the long road to acceptance into the 1930s. Dan Siegel explains the radical reconception of space, time, mass, and energy, along with the novel logic and structure that set Einstein’swork apart, bringing a clear understanding of relativity to readers without a background in physics. Retracing the steps taken by Einstein and his predecessors and followers, the author leads…

|9780822968306|Mass Media, Natural History, and the Environment in Britain, 1900–1945|A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and popular periodicals, the British public engaged with a wide variety of novel ways of approaching the natural world during this period, many of which emphasized the relevance of nature in modern everyday life. Drawing on a wide array of original archival…

|9780822949206|Mass Media, Natural History, and the Environment in Britain, 1900–1945|A Science for Everyday Life argues that mass media and communications technologies transformed the way British people thought about and experienced the natural world by democratizing knowledge about science and the environment. From progressive educational methods and new modes of museum display to microcinematographic film techniques, new broadcast technologies, and popular periodicals, the British public engaged with a wide variety of novel ways of approaching the natural world during this period, many of which emphasized the relevance of nature in modern everyday life. Drawing on a wide array of original archival…

|9780822968238|Latin American Medical Researchers of the Early Twentieth Century|Science under Adversity argues that the Global South served as a dynamic arena of scientific innovation, circulation, and international collaboration. In this richly detailed history of the development of Latin American physiology in the early- to mid-twentieth century, Marcos Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru and their counterparts at US research centers and philanthropies shaped the life sciences in the region. Latin American physiologists took part in networks of scientific power that dictated distinctive styles of laboratory research and strategies. By tracing the trajectories,…

|9780822949145|Latin American Medical Researchers of the Early Twentieth Century|Science under Adversity argues that the Global South served as a dynamic arena of scientific innovation, circulation, and international collaboration. In this richly detailed history of the development of Latin American physiology in the early- to mid-twentieth century, Marcos Cueto shows that productive tensions between doctors and scientists in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru and their counterparts at US research centers and philanthropies shaped the life sciences in the region. Latin American physiologists took part in networks of scientific power that dictated distinctive styles of laboratory research and strategies. By tracing the trajectories,…