TY - BOOK AU - Galison,Peter TI - Einstein's clocks, Poincare's maps: empires of time SN - 0393020010 U1 - 529 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Einstein, Albert, KW - Poincar, Henri, KW - Time KW - Relativity (Physics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-370) and index; Synchrony. Eistein's times -- A critical opalescence -- Order of argument -- Coal, chaos and convention. Coal -- Chaos -- Convention -- The electric worldmap. Standards of space and time -- Times, trains, and telegraphs -- Marketing time -- Measuring society -- Time into space -- Battle over neutrality -- Poincar้'s maps. Time, reason, nation -- Decimalizing time -- Of time and maps -- Mission to Quito -- Etherial time -- A triple conjunction -- Einstein's clocks. Materializing time -- Theory-machines -- Patent truths -- Clocks first -- Radio eiffel -- The place of time. Without mechanics -- Two moderisms -- Looking up, looking down ER -