Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of TimeA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincar's Maps is part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity. In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others. Galison has unearthed