发表于2024-11-05
A Tenth of a Second 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries.
Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies—telegraphy, photography, cinematography—Jimena Canales locates the reverberations of this “perceptual moment” throughout culture. Once scientists associated the tenth of a second with the speed of thought, they developed reaction time experiments with lasting implications for experimental psychology, physiology, and optics. Astronomers and physicists struggled to control the profound consequences of results that were a tenth of a second off. And references to the interval were part of a general inquiry into time, consciousness, and sensory experience that involved rethinking the contributions of Descartes and Kant.
Considering its impact on much longer time periods and featuring appearances by Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Einstein, among others, A Tenth of a Second is ultimately an important contribution to history and a novel perspective on modernity.
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评分这是一本关于时间题材的书, its digital format is available in Wechat Public Page: iAudioBook
评分这是一本想用最小的时间单位来书写一整个时代的书,就真的好棒。19世纪科学实验过程中发现人对外界刺激进行反应时,会有一个时间差。在作者对现代性的叙事中,这个时间差改变了笛卡尔、康德式的思考人:思考需要时间,是存在于时间和身体中的。同理视觉也变得受制于身体的时间性。摄影和电影的前身进入科学实验,不是因为它生来就和人眼视觉相似,而是为了纠正人眼视觉无法避免的误差。所以从某种意义上来说,这个时间差把时间本身的可再现性变成了一个问题,从而也撬动了再现的边界。我们不断尝试把人眼未必能见到的图像解读为真实的再现,因而赋予了摄影客观性的特质。
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评分这是一本关于时间题材的书, its digital format is available in Wechat Public Page: iAudioBook
A Tenth of a Second 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书