Studies in the History of General RelativityJean Eisenstaedt, A.J. Kox Springer Science & Business Media, 7 de febr. 1992 - 468 pàgines Among the considerations of the two dozen papers are the reception and development of Einstein's theory of general relativity in various institutions around the world; conceptual issues of the theory, especially themes, concepts, and principles associated with his theory of gravity; a number of tech |
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General Relativity and Portugal A Few Pointers Towards Peripheral Reception Studies | 3 |
The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Germany as Reflected by Books Published Between 1908 and 1945 | 15 |
General Relativity in the Netherlands 19151920 | 39 |
The Reception of General Relativity Among British Physicists and Mathematicians 19151930 | 57 |
US Air Force Support of General Relativity 19561972 | 89 |
Mathematics and General Relativity A Recollection | 103 |
General Relativity at the Turning Point of Its Renewal | 109 |
Conceptual Issues in General Relativity | 123 |
H A Lorentzs Attempt to Give a CoordinateFree Formulation of the General Theory of Relativity | 344 |
Quantization of the Gravitational Field 19301988 | 364 |
The First Steps of Quantum Gravity and the Planck Values | 367 |
Dirac Equations in Curved SpaceTime | 383 |
LeviCivita and the GeneralRelativistic Problem of Motion | 393 |
Myron Mathissons and Jan Weyssenhoffs Work on the Problem of Motion in General Relativity | 400 |
The Cauchy Problem in General RelativityThe Early Years | 407 |
Spherical Coordinates in General Relativity from 1915 to 1960 A Physical Interpretation | 419 |
Einstein and Machs Principle | 125 |
Einstein and Eindeutigkeit A Neglected Theme in the Philosophical Background to General Relativity | 154 |
The Correspondence of Albert Einstein and Gustav Mie 19171918 | 244 |
An Outline of the History of Einsteins Relativistic Ether Concept | 260 |
The Physical Content of General Covariance | 281 |
Technical Aspects of General Relativity | 317 |
Albert Einsteins 1907 Jahrbuch Paper The First Step from SRT to GRT | 319 |
On the Origin of the Concept of an Einstein Space | 336 |
Relativistic Cosmology | 435 |
Contributions of Lemaitre to General Relativity 19221934 | 437 |
Schrödinger and Cosmology | 453 |
French Summaries | 460 |
List of Participants | 466 |
Contributors Addresses | 467 |
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