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The Comparative Reception of Relativity

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Thomas F. Glick

    1. Department of History, Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 103)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Putting New Wine in Old Bottles

    • Stanley Goldberg
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Reception of Special Relativity in Great Britain

    • José M. Sánchez-Ron
    Pages 27-58

  4. The Relativity Revolution in Germany

    • Lewis Pyenson
    Pages 59-111

  5. The Scientific Reception of Relativity in France

    • Michel Paty
    Pages 113-167

  6. Einstein’s Reception in Paris in 1922

    • Michel Biezunski
    Pages 169-188

  7. Einstein Politicized: The Early Reception of Relativity in Italy

    • Barbara J. Reeves
    Pages 189-229

  8. Relativity in Spain

    • Thomas F. Guck
    Pages 231-263

  9. The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR

    • V. P. Vizgin, G. E. Gorelik
    Pages 265-326

  10. The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Poland

    • Bronislaw Sredniawa
    Pages 327-350

  11. Einstein’s Impact on Japanese Intellectuals

    • Tsutomu Kaneko
    Pages 351-379

  12. Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity

    • Thomas F. Glick
    Pages 381-400

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 401-416
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About this book

The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari­ ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy, and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we could muster. Only general guidelines were given to the authors: to treat the special or general theories, or both, hopefully in a multidisciplinary setting, to examine the popular reception of relativity, or Einstein's personal impact, or to survey all these topics. In a previous volume, on the 2 comparative reception of Darwinism, one of us devised a detailed set of guidelines which in general were not followed. In our opinion, the studies in this collection offer greater comparability, no doubt because relativity by its nature and its complexity offers a sharper, more easily bounded target. As in the Darwinism volume, this book concludes with an essay intended to draw together in comparative perspective some of many themes addressed by the participants.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Boston University, USA

    Thomas F. Glick

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Comparative Reception of Relativity

  • Editors: Thomas F. Glick

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3875-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2498-4Published: 31 October 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8223-5Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3875-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 416

  • Topics: History, general, Philosophy of Science

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