The Expanding World of General Relativity (Einstein Studies)

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number and quality of works on the history of gravitation and general relativity. This book, based on the Fourth International Conference on the History of General Relativity, welcomes a number of young researchers as well as prominent, established scholars in a collection of important explorations of four themes at the forefront of work in the field. Historians and philosophers of science as well as working relativists and cosmologists, mathematicians, physicists, and general readers interested in the field will profit from this collection of up-to-date contributions to a fascinating and intriguing topic in the history of science. The volume presents a broad and accurate status report of a most lively and expanding field of historical and philosophical research.

First sentence: THE RECEIVED HISTORICAL VIEW OF GENERAL RELATIVITY tells US that, at the end of the nineteenth century, physicists accepted Newton's law of gravitation: there is an attractive force between any pair of bodies in the world, and this force depends only on the masses of those bodies and on their mutual distance.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Birkhäuser Boston

Editions

4

Pages

512

ISBN

9780817640606

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