Book ID: CBB000032189

The attraction of gravitation: New studies in the history of general relativity (1993)

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Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 1993
Edition Details: Earman, John, Janssen, Michel, Norton, John D., editors.
Physical Details: xi + 432 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Norton, John D.: Einstein and Nordström: Some lesser-known thought experiments in gravitation. Howard, Don, Norton, John D.: Out of the labyrinth? Einstein, Hertz, and the Göttingen answer to the hole argument. Cattani, Carlo, De Maria, Michelangelo: Conservation laws and gravitational waves in general relativity (1915-1918). Havas, Peter: The general-relativistic two-body problem and the Einstein-Silberstein controversy. Earman, John, Janssen, Michel: Einstein's explanation of the motion of Mercury's perihelion. Kox, A.J.: Pieter Zeeman's experiments on the equality of inertial and gravitational mass. Kichenassamy, S.: Variational derivations of Einstein's equations. Cattani, Carlo: Levi-Civita's influence on Palatini's contribution to general relativity. Reich, Karin: The American contribution to the theory of differential invariants, 1900-1916. Goenner, Hubert: The reaction to relativity theory in Germany, III: “A hundred authors against Einstein”. Bergia, Silvio: Attempts at unified field theories (1919-1955): Alleged failure and intrinsic validation/refutation criteria. Gorelik, Gennady: Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of gravity and gravity of philosophy. Wali, Kameshwar C.: S. Chandrasekhar's contributions to general relativity. Eisenstaedt, Jean: Lemaître and the Schwarzschild solution. Urani, John, Gale, George: E.A. Milne and the origins of modern cosmology: An essential presence.


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Shugart, Cecil G.
Abiko, Seiya
Balashov, Yuri
D'Agostino, Salvatore
Einstein, Albert
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American Journal of Physics
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Magyar Fizikai Folyoirat
Physics Today
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
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Memphis State Univ. Press
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Relativity
Physics
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Geometry
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Einstein, Albert
Freundlich, Erwin Finlay
Ives, Herbert Eugene
Poincaré, Jules Henri
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