A Tenth of a Second

A History

By: Jimena Canales

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Hardcover | 1 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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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"A thoughtful look at the all-too-human perceptual complications facing objective observation." (New Scientist) "This is an interesting, entertaining, and well-written book." (Choice)"

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Time & Chronology Science in General History of Science Engineering & Technology Technology in General History of Engineering & Technology Mechanical Engineering & Materials

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Reaction Time and the Personal Equation	p. 21
The Measure of All Thoughts	p. 59
Moments of Contact	p. 87
Captured by Cinematography	p. 117
Stabilizing Physics	p. 155
Reacting to Relativity	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 205
Postscript	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 261
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