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...social sciences plane, the exhibit features the first edition of Nietzche's "Geneologie de Moral," the first written presentation of Einstein's Corpuscular Theory of Light, and the first edition of Millikan's "The Electron...
...between the publication of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity (1905) and the explosion of the first atomic bomb (1945), science had a glorious period never equaled before. On dozens of fronts it swept ahead. From laboratories and observatories, from scholars' quiet studies in rapid succession came startling discoveries, most of them wrapped in an opaque web of higher mathematics...
...story was compounded by a methematician, not written by a writer. This Hollywood Einstein has taken a man, his wife, and their two daughters, equated them with a young obstetrician, a Frenchman, and a worldly aunt, and triumphantly made it all come out even. The Frenchman and the obstetrician account for the two daughters, while the husband and wife remain idyllicly united, despite some complications with the worldly aunt, who cops the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the only character in the picture who doesn't remind the audience at least one that "this is 1876!" "Centennial Summer's" ingenuity...
President Conant, who shares billing with such notables as Albert Einstein and Major General Leslie R. Groves to reenact the evolution of the A-bomb, is co-starred with Vannevar Bush in a scene filmed in a Cambridge garage and portraying the first explosion of the bomb...
Since the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, Western societies have been based on a succession of scientific philosophies, each of which added its own mistakes in correcting its predecessors. Finally science itself took a turn, with the physics of Einstein, that knocked the props from under even the inadequate philosophies of Locke, Kant and Hegel. Says Northrop: "The traditional modern world is as outmoded as the medieval world...