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  title info:
    title: Ether and modernity
    sub title: the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century
  name:
    name part: Navarro, Jaume
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This book is a snapshot of the ether qua epistemic object in the early twentieth century. It shows that the ether was not necessarily regarded as the residue of old-fashioned science, but often as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays. Instrumental in this was the emergence of wireless technologies and radio broadcasting, which brought the ether into social audiences who would otherwise have never heard about it. Following the prestige of scientists like Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington as popularisers of science, the ether became common currency among the general educated public. Modernism in the arts was also fond of the ether in the early twentieth century: the values of modernism found in the complexities and contradictions of modern physics provided a fertile ground for the development of new artistic languages, in literature as much as in the pictorial and performing arts. The question of what was meant by 'ether' (or 'aether') in the early twentieth century at the scientific and cultural levels is also central to this book. The chapters in this book display a complex array of meanings that will help elucidate the uses of the ether before its purported abandonment. Rather than considering ether as simply a term that remained popular in several groups, this book shows the complexities of an epistemic object that saw, in the early twentieth century, the last episode in the long tradition of stretching its meaning and uses.
  table of contents: Introdcution -- The ether at the crossroads of classical and modern physics -- Transformations of knowledge in Oliver Lodge's Ether and Reality -- Poincare's mathematical creations in search fo the 'true relations of things' -- Ether and electrons in relativity theory (1900-11) -- Making space for the soul -- Lenard's ether and its vortex of emotions -- Ether and wireless -- Hunting for the luminiferous ether -- Ether and aesthetics in the dialogue between relativists and their critics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Umberto Boccioni's elasticity, Italian futurism and the ether of space -- An ether by any other name?
  note: edited by Jaume Navarro.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ether (Space)
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Object (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Éther (Espace)
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Objet (Esthétique)
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Ether (Space)
  classification: QC177 .E74 2018
  classification: 530.1
  identifier: 9780192517791
  identifier: 0192517791
  identifier: 9780191838750
  identifier: 0191838756
  identifier: 9780198797258
  identifier: 0198797257
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 180904
    record change date: 20260319180128.5
    record identifier: in00005716547
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng