Before Einstein the fourth dimension in fin-de-siècle in literature and culture
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. Before Einstein offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity fou...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England ; New York, New York :
Anthem Press
2017.
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| Colección: | Anthem nineteenth century studies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423731306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Imagining something perfectly new: problems of language, conception and perception
- Constructing the fourth dimension: the first series of the scientific romances
- The four-dimensional self: personal, political and untimely
- Four-dimensional consciousness: the correspondence between William James and Charles Howard Hinton
- H.G. Wells's four-dimensional literary aesthetic
- Exceeding the trap of the reflexive: Henry James's dimensions of consciousness.
