Overview
- For the first time the correspondence and the lectures of Albert Einstein during his stay in Italy
- Demonstrates the anti-fascist commitment of Albert Einstein
- Illustrates the debate on relativity in the international journal “Scientia”
Part of the book series: History of Physics (HIPHY)
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Keywords
- Einstein in Italy
- Relationships of Einstein in Italy
- Einstein in Bologna conferences
- Einstein and Enriques correspondence
- relativity theory debate in the Scientia journal
- Federigo Enriques
- Tullio Levi-Civita
- Ricci-Curbastro
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
About this book
This book is dedicated to Einstein’s personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life. It collects together a wealth of historical documentation including the letters in which Einstein recalls having lived as a young man with his family in Lombardy, Pavia and Milan; the texts of three lectures delivered by Einstein in Italian in October 1921 in Bologna at the invitation of the mathematician Federigo Enriques, the only lectures he held in Italy; the correspondence with Enriques and other Italian intellectuals, together with the letter that Einstein sent in 1931 to the Minister of Justice Alfredo Rocco to try to avoid the infamy of the oath of allegiance to the fascist regime imposed by Mussolini on university professors. The book closes with some writings on relativity from 1907 to 1914 (Einstein, Abraham, Corbino, Castelnuovo) and the 1920s debate between pro-relativists and anti-relativists publishedin the international journal “Scientia”, founded in 1907 by Enriques.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sandra Linguerri is an associate professor of history of science and techniques at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna. She is the secretary-treasurer of the Italian Society of the History of Science; she is a member of Euromaths, a French-Italian research group in history of mathematics, based at the Institut méditerranéen de recherches avances (IMéRA), Marseille, France. She is a life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Commission for the National Edition of the works of Federigo Enriques. Since 2017, she has been on the Scientific Committee of the journal Physis—Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza. She studies the history of science between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries with particular reference to the history of scientific institutions, to the protagonists of the intellectual landscape, to the institutional, associative, and editorial network of that time in Italy, and gender studies.
Raffaella Simili is an emeritus professor of history of science at the University of Bologna. She studies the history of culture, the scientific institutions in Italy after the unification, and gender perspectives. She is the president emeritus of the Italian Society of the History of Science and a life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK. She was a visiting fellow in England and in the USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Albert Einstein—Italian Memories
Book Subtitle: The Bologna Lectures and Other Events
Authors: Sandra Linguerri, Raffaella Simili (deceased)
Series Title: History of Physics
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52949-8Due: 21 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52952-8Due: 21 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52950-4Due: 21 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2730-7549
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 186
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour