Reposting Nick's original email with a web link to the paper instead of an
attachment (10MB). The book he references is here:
http://redfish.com/friam/evolutionofphysi033254mbp.pdf
note: the FRIAM listserv currently has a 1MB attachment limit. It doesn't
sound like a big file but if it goes to >500 subscribers that's 5GB of
traffic.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nick Thompson <[email protected]>
Subject: FW: Einstein: physics for English Majors
Dear Friamers,
My wife, who haunts the dusty back stacks of local libraries and brings me
treasures, brought me a copy of the attached book, which I later located on
line. It takes me from Gallileo to Quanta. It is calmly and simply
written. For anybody who thinks that relativity gives warrant for
relativism, it will be, I think, an education. The second author is a
Polish physicist who collaborated with Einstein for a couple of years at
Princeton before going on to the University of Toronto. How two writers
for whom English was not a first language, write so intimately and lucidly
on such complex matters is a wonder to me. I am also startled by how
closely the philosophy of science – it’s “idealist realism” – parallel’s
Peirce’s.
Great summer read!
Nick
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