The Comparative reception of relativity
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The Comparative reception of relativity
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 103）
D. Reidel , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1987
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"The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science held on March 25, 1983"--Pref
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Stanley Goldberg/Putting New Wine in Old Bottles: The Assimilation of Relativity in America.- Jose M. Sanchez-Ron/The Reception of Special Relativity in Great Britain.- Lewis Pyenson/The Relativity Revolution in Germany.- Michel Paty/The Scientific Reception of Relativity in France.- Michel Biezunski/Einstein's Reception in Paris in 1922.- Barbara J. Reeves/Einstein Politicized: The Early Reception of Relativity in Italy.- Thomas F. Glick/Relativity in Spain.- V.P. Vizginand G.E. Gorelik/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR.- Bronis?aw ?Redniawa/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Poland.- Tsutomu Kaneko/Einstein's Impact on Japanese Intellectuals.- Thomas F. Glick/Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity.
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