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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Genesis of General Relativity
  name:
    name part: Janssen, Michel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Norton, John D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Renn, Jürgen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sauer, Tilman.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Stachel, John.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 619 p. online resource.
  abstract: This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development. Some of these sources are presented here in translation for the first time. Einstein’s famous Zurich notebook, which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.
  table of contents: to Volumes 1 and 2: The Zurich Notebook and the Genesis of General Relativity -- Classical Physics In Disarray -- The First Two Acts -- Pathways out of Classical Physics -- Einstein's Zurich Notebook -- A Commentary on the Notes on Gravity in the Zurich Notebook -- What was Einstein's “Fateful Prejudice”? -- What did Einstein know and when did He know it? A Besso Memo Dated August 1913 -- Untying the Knot: how Einstein Found his way Back to Field Equations Discarded in the Zurich Notebook -- The Gravitational Force between Mechanics and Electrodynamics -- Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: An Introduction -- The Third Way to General Relativity: Einstein and Mach in Context -- Gravitation -- Considerations on Gravitation -- Absolute or Relative Motion? -- On Absolute and Relative Motion -- An Astronomical Road to a New Theory of Gravitation -- The Continuity Between Classical and Relativistic Cosmology in the Work of Karl Schwarzschild -- Things at Rest in the Universe -- A New Law of Gravitation Enforced by Special Relativity -- Breaking in the 4-Vectors: The Four-Dimensional Movement in Gravitation, 1905–1910 -- On The Dynamics of the Electron (Excerpts) -- Mechanics and the Relativity Postulate -- Old and New Questions in Physics (Excerpt) -- The Problem of Gravitation as a Challenge for the Minkowski Formalism -- The Summit Almost Scaled: Max Abraham as a Pioneer of a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation -- On the Theory of Gravitation -- The Free Fall -- A New Theory of Gravitation -- Recent Theories of Gravitation -- A Field Theory of Gravitation in the Framework of Special Relativity -- Einstein, Nordström, and the Early Demise of Scalar, Lorentz Covariant Theories of Gravitation -- The Principle of Relativity and Gravitation -- Inertial and Gravitational Mass In Relativistic Mechanics -- On the Theory of Gravitation from the Standpoint of the Principle of Relativity -- On the Present State of the Problem of Gravitation -- From Heretical Mechanics…
  note: edited by Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, Jürgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, John Stachel.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Nature
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  classification: QC178
  classification: QC173.5-173.65
  classification: 530.1
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      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 250
  identifier: 9781402040009
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9
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