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The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Hubert Goenner
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  2. Jürgen Renn

    1. MPI for the History of Science and TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Jim Ritter
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  4. Tilman Sauer

    1. California Institute of Technology Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena, USA

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Part of the book series: Einstein Studies (EINSTEIN, volume 7)

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Keywords

  • General Special Relativity
  • History of Science

About this book

The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo­ sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing awareness that a collaboration between working scientists, historians and philosophers of science is, in this field, partic­ ularly promising for all participants. The expanding activity in this field is well documented by recent volumes in this Einstein Studies series on the History of General Relativity as well as by a series of international conferences on this topic at Osgood Hill (1986), Luminy (1988), and Pittsburgh (1991). The fourth of these conferences, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, was held in Berlin from 31 July to 3 August 1995, with a record attendance of some 80 historians and philosophers of science, physicists, mathematicians, and as­ tronomers. Based on presentations at the Berlin conference, this volume provides an overview of the present state of research in this field, documenting not only the increasing scope of recent investigations in the history of relativity and gravitation but also the emergence of several key issues that will probably remain at the focus of debate in the near future. RELATIVITY IN THE MAKING The papers of this section deal with the origins and genesis of relativity theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • MPI for the History of Science and TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Berlin, Germany

    Jürgen Renn

  • California Institute of Technology Einstein Papers Project, Pasadena, USA

    Tilman Sauer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity

  • Editors: Hubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn, Jim Ritter, Tilman Sauer

  • Series Title: Einstein Studies

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4060-6Published: 01 December 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6850-5Published: 13 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2381-5833

  • Series E-ISSN: 2381-5841

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 512

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