The Genesis of General Relativity : Sources and Interpretations. 1st ed. 2007

種類:

電子ブック

責任表示:

edited by Jürgen Renn

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007

著者名:

• Renn, Jürgen.
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シリーズ名:

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ; 250

ISBN:

9781402040009 [1402040008]    

注記:

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 Gravitatio
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.

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