Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time

Abstract

Ch. 1. Synchrony -- Einstein's Times -- A Critical Opalescence -- Order of Argument -- Ch. 2. Coal, Chaos, and Convention -- Coal -- Chaos -- Convention -- Ch. 3. The Electric Worldmap -- Standards of Space and Time -- Times, Trains, and Telegraphs -- Marketing Time -- Measuring Society -- Time into Space -- Battle over Neutrality -- Ch. 4. Poincare's Maps -- Time, Reason, Nation -- Decimalizing Time -- Of Time and Maps -- Mission to Quito -- Etherial Time -- A Triple Conjunction -- Ch. 5. Einstein's Clocks -- Materializing Time -- Theory-Machines -- Patent Truths -- Clocks First -- Radio Eiffel -- Ch. 6. The Place of Time -- Without Mechanics -- Two Modernisms -- Looking Up, Looking Down.