Einstein's watch, Poincare maps: time empires. Galison P.

The book of the modern American philosopher and historian of science Peter Galison introduces the reader to the turn of the 19th-XX centuries. A clock coordination procedure was developed, which then became one of the supports of relativistic physics. The author’s focus is not only the theoretical reasoning of the famous physicists - primarily Einstein and Poincare - but also an extremely confused ball of heterogeneous interests and practices belonging to navigators, astronomers, railway workers, military, businessmen and cartographers of those times that allowed in something in something in something in something in something in something in something allowed To illustrate, to discredit in some ways, and in some ways to anticipate the ideas of cabinet scientists. The book is addressed to philosophers, historians of science, as well as a wide circle of readers interested in the development of scientific thought.