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| #2919480 in Books | 2010-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating little book. Just watched for the second and ...|By Scott Yarbro|Fascinating little book. Just watched for the second and third times the PBS documentary on CERN's discovery of the Higgs particle and the measurement of GeV (whatever that is). Reading The Physicist and The Philospoher now. I never realized there was so much debate between philosophers and scientists||
“Canales gives a convincing argument that the changes in technology, science, and philosophy between the 19th century and the present can be understood by examining how small time intervals are understood. . . . This is an interesting, entertaining,
In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries.
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You easily download any file type for your device.A Tenth of a Second: A History | Jimena Canales. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
