本书是由美国麻省理工学院物理学与人文学教授阿兰・莱特墁 创作的一部小说，篇幅不长，却字字珠玑。小说以1905年的瑞士伯尔尼市镇生活为背景，虚构出了若干爱因斯坦的梦：或悲悯尘世哀凉，或吹嘘爱情飘忽，一字一字如明月松间，清泉石上，体现了对生命的俯就与关怀……在作者笔下，时间的无限可能性被展示得淋漓尽致。在那一个个爱因斯坦的“梦”中，时间宛如美丽的诗篇，衍生出或领悟、或遐想、或感动、或悲伤、或清澈奇异、或伤感高贵的无穷可能。作者行文曼妙，如诗如画，既不失科学家简约本色，又突显其天马行空的想像力以及对人...

In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the knowledge and encounters of those Europeans as they moved across the globe. It participates in the attempt to open up more nuanced and balanced trajectories of colonial and post-colonial encounters. By focusing on exchange, translation, and resistance, the authors bring into the spotlight many "bit-players" and things originally relegated to the margins in the development of late modern science. Contributors include Karen Smith, Larry Stewart, Savrithri Preetha Nair, Jan Golinski, Arun Bala, Jonathan Topham, Khyati Nagar, Yang Haiyan, Fa-ti Fan, Grace Yen Shen, Jahnavi Phalkey, Veena Rao, and Sundar Sarukkai.