{"product_id":"a-tenth-of-a-second-jimena-canales-9780226093185","title":"A Tenth of a Second: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eA Tenth of a Second\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on modernity and illuminates the work of important thinkers of the last two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering its impact on much longer time periods and featuring appearances by Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin, and Albert Einstein, among others, \u003ci\u003eA Tenth of a Second\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately an important contribution to history and a novel perspective on modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jimena Canales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226093182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226093185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010","brand":"Jimena Canales","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482789961983,"sku":"9780226093185","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf8ee4fb-3a65-4dc5-aeae-5f00c15e8750.jpg?v=1715999498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-tenth-of-a-second-jimena-canales-9780226093185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}