FLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books drawing on ancient, medieval and modern writing. Created to entertain, inform and enrich, the new series brings infinite variety to refresh the mind, presented in beautiful editions for the modern market. Each book features a new, accessible introduction, specially written for these editions, placing the book in context both as part of the new series, and highlighting its special contribution to the advancement of human understanding; they examine the significance of each work, their impact at time of publication, and their influence today.
Learn from the world’s biggest thinkers.
Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity are today widely accepted, but when he first outlined them, there was fierce opposition. https://t.co/1dzf1ACuYd
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A fun fact about Albert Einstain not many people know. Not content with creating both special and general relativity, in 1905, Einstein use statistics and Brownian motion to prove a previously unproven concept: the existence of atoms. https://t.co/4nGIVbqxrH
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Isaac Newton’s laws of motion, quantum mechanics, Albert Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity — they’re all just pieces of a bigger story that quantum field theory wants to tell: https://t.co/LKW2PxuTsx (via @QuantaMagazine) https://t.co/xOHqFWwGeb