{"product_id":"einsteins-war-by-matthew-stanley-9780241985618","title":"Einstein's War","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then, Einstein's masterpiece of time and space had been trapped behind the physical and ideological lines of battle, unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEinstein's name is now synonymous with 'genius', but it was not an easy road. He spent a decade creating relativity and his ascent to global celebrity owed much to against-the-odds international collaboration, including Eddington's globe-spanning expedition of 1919—two years before they finally met. We usually think of scientific discovery as a flash of individual inspiration, but here we see it is the result of hard work, gambles and wrong turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEinstein's War\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of what science can offer when bigotry and nationalism are defeated. Using previously unknown sources and written like a thriller, it shows relativity being built brick-by-brick in front of us, as it happened 100 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596318064876,"sku":"9780241985618","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2d340cb3ad98305d09bde19401674a8c.jpg?v=1777936707","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/einsteins-war-by-matthew-stanley-9780241985618","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}