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Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain and demonstrates how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s.

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"Loving Faster than Light is a very well-written, insightful examination of one of the essential problems of the history of science - how does elite, esoteric knowledge get read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional scientific community? Katy Price focuses on one of the defining scientific ideas of the twentieth century - relativity - and skillfully demonstrates the many genres and styles through which it was adopted and changed. An excellent book that brings together a number of disciplinary approaches." (Matthew Stanley, New York University)"

Loving Faster than Light

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 12 November 2012
      ISBN-13 9780226680736
      978-0226680736
      ISBN-10 0226680738
      Also in:
      History of science Relativity physics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain and demonstrates how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s.

      Trade Review
      "Loving Faster than Light is a very well-written, insightful examination of one of the essential problems of the history of science - how does elite, esoteric knowledge get read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional scientific community? Katy Price focuses on one of the defining scientific ideas of the twentieth century - relativity - and skillfully demonstrates the many genres and styles through which it was adopted and changed. An excellent book that brings together a number of disciplinary approaches." (Matthew Stanley, New York University)"

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