Einstein Tower

Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory and Astronomy

Autor: Klaus Hentschel

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This text focuses on the Einstein Tower, an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in...

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Autor

Klaus Hentschel

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

244

EAN

9780804728249

ISBN

0804728240

Enbook ID

04716551

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

522

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

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This text 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.

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