The Road to Relativity : : The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece / / Jürgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund.
This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the eleg...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 100 halftones. 41 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- A Brief Note on the Publication of this Work
- Foreword
- Preface
- The Charm of a Manuscript
- Einstein's Intellectual Odyssey to General Relativity
- The Annotated Manuscript
- Notes on the Annotation Pages
- Postscript: The Drama Continues . . .
- A Chronology of the Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years
- Physicists, Mathematicians, and Philosophers Relevant to Einstein's Thinking
- Further Reading
- English Translation of "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity"
- English Translation of "Hamilton's Principle and the General Theory of Relativity"
- Index