Everything's Relative
Subtitle: And Other Fables from Science and Technology
Publisher: Wiley
Published: September 26, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780471202578
First sentence: The Contemporary Panopticon of Present and Past Concepts can be viewed in many ways.
Description: "In a discipline so firmly rooted in empirical data, it's surprising to discover how the history of science can be so riddled by apocrypha, inaccuracies, and blatant falsehoods. In Everything's Relative, writer and physicist Tony Rothman sets the record straight once and for all, giving credit where credit is due by debunking centuries of commonly held beliefs embedded throughout science and technology's illustrious, albeit distorted, history." "Each anecdote clearly reveals how unique discoveries are the exception, rather than the rule. Discoveries almost always take place simultaneously or are built upon a predecessor's breakthrough ... usually without acknowledgment."--Jacket.