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Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary "relativity"; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular... read more
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- Einstein: Add a description of this character.
- Woolf
- Eddington
- T. S. Eliot
- J. W. N. Sullivan
- D. H. Lawrence
- Joseph Conrad
- Karl Pearson
- Huxley
- Lewis
- Murry
- Bertrand Russell
- Bergson
- Poincare
- Kelvin
- Mrs Dalloway
- Bernard
- Macmillan
- Grammar
- Whitehead
- Denis
- Mach
- Hogarth
- Faber
- Louis
- Gudrun
- Gibson
- Stewart
- Brooks
- Gerald
- Mrs Ramsay
- Marius
- Clifford
- Eleanor
- James
- Winnie
- Aaron
- Maxwell
- Dingle
- Cunninghame Graham
- Lodge
- J. C. Squire
- Percival
- Ursula
First Sentence edit
THE study of literature and science raises an ontological problem: faced with two terms which are commonly understood as antithetical, we must explain in what sense we are comparing like with like; the problem appears particularly acute when we are examining the relation of literature to a mathematical science such as physics.
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- Michael H. Whitworth (Author)
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- Dewey: 820.9112
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