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The Invisible Century Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes Hardback - 2004

by Richard Panek

Though they met just once, and even then didn't know what to make of each other's work, Einstein and Freud had more in common than they might have imagined. Each ran out of evidence using the traditional scientific methods that had worked well since the dawn of the scientific revolution and each adopted new scientific methods that opened up unprecedented intellectual landscapes relativity in Einstein's case, the unconscious in Freud's. In this brilliant, elegant book, renowned science writer Richard Panek traces the creation of two new sciences cosmology and psychoanalysis that have allowed us for more than a hundred years to explore previously unimaginable universes without and within.

Like a nonfiction version of Einstein's Dreams, Panek's The Invisible Century is a story of a revolution in thought that altered not only what or how much we see, but also the very nature of seeing.


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Though they met just once, and even then didnat know what to make of each otheras work, Einstein and Freud had more in common than they might have imagined. Each ran out of evidence using the traditional scientific methods that had worked well since the dawn of the scientific revolution and each adopted new scientific methods that opened up unprecedented intellectual landscapesarelativity in Einsteinas case, the unconscious in Freudas. In this brilliant, elegant book, renowned science writer Richard Panek traces the creation of two new sciencesacosmology and psychoanalysisathat have allowed us for more than a hundred years to explore previously unimaginable universes without and within.

Like a nonfiction version of "Einsteinas Dreams," Panekas "The Invisible Century" is a story of a revolution in thought that altered not only what or how much we see, but also the very nature of seeing.

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  • Title The Invisible Century Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes
  • Author Richard Panek
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 258
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Viking Adult, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date June 17, 2004
  • ISBN 9780670030743

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Allows us to see in a different light a history that was in front of our eyes all along. (The Boston Globe)A gem of a book. Elegant, informative, provocative, and beautifully written. (Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams)

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