Einstein's Jury : : The Race to Test Relativity / / Jeffrey Crelinsten.
Einstein's Jury is the dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed to test Einstein's developing theory of relativity. Weaving a rich narrative based on extensive archival research, Jeffrey Crelinsten shows how these early scientific debates shaped cultural...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- NOTATION CONVENTION FOR ANGULAR MEASURE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- PART ONE: 1905-1911 Early Encounters with Relativity
- CHAPTER ONE. Einstein and the World Community of Physicists and Astronomers
- CHAPTER TWO. Astronomers and Special Relativity: The First Publications
- PART TWO: 1911-1919 Astronomers Encounter Einstein
- CHAPTER THREE. The Early Involvement, 1911-1914
- CHAPTER FOUR. The War Period, 1914-1918
- CHAPTER FIVE. 1919: A Year of Dramatic Announcement
- CHAPTER SIX. Men of Science Agog
- PART THREE: 1920-1925 Astronomers Put Einstein to the Test
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Tackling the Solar Redshift Problem
- CHAPTER EIGHT. More Eclipse Testing
- CHAPTER NINE. Emergence of the Critics
- CHAPTER TEN. The Debate Intensifies
- PART FOUR: 1925-1930 Final Acceptance
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Relativity Triumphs
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Silencing the Critics
- EPILOGUE. The Emergence of Relativistic Cosmology
- FINAL REFLECTIONS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index