The curious history of relativity : how Einstein's theory of gravity was lost and found again /
"Almost one hundred years after general relativity replaced Newton's theory of gravitation, The Curious History of Relativity tells the story of the events surrounding general relativity and the techniques employed by Einstein and the relativists to construct, develop, and understand his a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | CNRS editions ;
15. CNRS histoire des sciences ; 15. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction : a difficult theory
- 1. The speed of light and classical physics
- 2. Light and the structure of space-time
- 3. Toward a new theory of gravitation
- 4. Einstein's principles
- 5. The birth of general relativity
- 6. General relativity : a physical geometry
- 7. Relativity verified : Mercury's anomaly
- 8. Relativity verified : the deflection of light rays
- 9. Relativity verified : the line shift
- 10. The crossing of the desert
- 11. An unpopular theory
- 12. The rejection of black holes
- 13. Paths in Schwarzschild's space-time
- 14. No ordinary stars
- 15. Gravitation, astrophysics, and cosmology
- Afterword : The paths of general relativity
- Bibliography
- Name index.
