Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein

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"This book retraces the emergence of relativity principles in early modern mechanics, documents their constructive use in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanics, optics, and electrodynamics, and gives a well-rooted account of the genesis of special and general relativity in the early twentieth century. As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture." -- back cover.

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Full title :Relativity principles and theories from Galileo to Einstein / Olivier Darrigol.

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Publication Date:©2022

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

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Description:xii, 472 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:9780192849533, 0192849530
oclc:on1258675513
LC Classification:QC173.52
Dewey Decimal:530.1109

Preface -- Conventions and notations -- Rethinking motion in the seventeenth century -- Deriving Newton's second law from relativity principles -- The space-time-inertia tangle -- The optics of moving bodies -- The electrodynamics of moving bodies -- Poincaré's relativity theory -- The relativity theory of Einstein, Minkowski, and Laue -- From Riemann to Ricci -- Mostly Einstein: To general relativity --Mesh and measure in early general relativity -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations.