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Making general relativity

edited with introductions by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser

(Science and society : the history of modern physical science in the twentieth century, v. 2)

Routledge, 2001

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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  • Einstein, Albert. 'Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity.' In Carl Seelig, ed., Ideas and Opinions (New York, NY: Crown, 1982). Stachel, John. 'Einstein's Search for the General Convariance, 1912-1915.' In Don Howard and John Stachel, eds., Einstein and the History of General Relativity (Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1989). Norton, John. 'Einstein and Nordstrom: Some Lesser-Known Thought Experiments in Gravitation.' In John Earman, Michel Janssen, and John Norton eds., The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity (Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1993). Hoefer, Carl. 'Einstein's Struggle for a Machian Gravitation Theory.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25 (1994). Renn, Jurgen and Tilman Sauer. 'Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation.' In H. Goenner, J.Renn, J. Ritter, and T. Sauer, eds., The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity (Boston
  • Birkhauser, 1999). Pais, Abraham. 'Subtle is the Lord...' In The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1982). Earman, John and Clark Glymour. 'Relativity Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expediation of 1919 and their Predecessors.' Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 11 (1980). Hentschel, Klaus. 'Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing Relativity Theory, 1907-1927.' In Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 23 (1992). Graham, Loren. 'The Reception of Einstein's Ideas: Two Examples from Contrasting Political Cultures.' In Gerald Holton and Yehudah Elkana, eds., Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982). Eisenstaedt, Jean. 'The Low Water Mark of General Relativity, 1925-1955.' In Don Howard and John Stachel, eds., Einstein and the History of General Relativity (Boston, MA Birkhauser, (1989). Kaiser, David. 'A Psi is just a Psi? Practice, Pedagogy, and the Reconstitution of General Relativity, 1942-1975.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29 (1998).

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