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The Genesis of General Relativity. Volume 1-4

By Jürgen Renn , Matthias Schemmel (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
978-1-4020-3999-7, 978-1-4020-4000-9
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-4000-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (63823033 bytes)
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 250
Edition
1
Pages
938+1152\2072
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-20 01:09:21
Philosophy; History of Science; Epistemology; Phil

Description

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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