Einstein and the changing worldviews of physics

by Lehner, Christoph Renn, Jürgen Schemmel, Matthias

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Full title :Einstein and the changing worldviews of physics / edited by Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn, and Matthias Schemmel.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Birkhäuser
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 363 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817649395, 0817649395, 9780817649401, 0817649409
oclc:ocn772987650
LC Classification:QC173.6
Dewey Decimal:530.11

Part I: At the limits of the classical worldview. Theories of gravitation in the twilight of classical physics / Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel ; The Newtonian theory of light propagation / Jean Eisenstaedt ; Mach and Einstein, or, clearing troubled waters in the history of science / Gereon Wolters -- Part II: Contexts of the relativity revolution. Tilling the seedbed of Einstein's politics : a pre-1905 harbinger? / Robert Schulmann ; The early reception of Einstein's relativity among British philosophers / José M. Sánchez-Ron ; Science and ideology in Einstein's visit to South America in 1925 / Alfredo Tiomno Tolmasquim ; The reception of Einstein's relativity theories in literature and the arts (1920-1950) / Hubert F. Goenner -- Part III: The emergence of the relativisticworldview. Hilbert's axiomatic method and his "foundations of physics" : reconciling causality with the axiom of general invariance / Katherine A. Brading and Thomas A. Ryckman ; Not only because of theory : Dyson, Eddington, and the competing myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition / Daniel Kennefick ; Peter Havas (1916-2004) / Hubert F. Goenner ; Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dyna…

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Einstein, Albert General relativity (Physics) General relativity (Physics) -- History History Relativité générale (Physique) Relativité générale (Physique) -- Histo…