The Cambridge companion to Einstein / edited by Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, Christoph Lehner, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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TextSeries: Cambridge companions to philosophyPublisher: New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xvi, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780521535427 (paperback)
- 530.092 B 23
- QC16.E5 C36 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-549) and index.
Introduction / Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner -- Einstein's Copernican Revolution / Jèurgen Renn and Robert Rynasiewicz -- Einstein's special theory of relativity and the problems in the electrodynamics of moving bodies that led him to it / John D. Norton -- Einstein on statistical physics: fluctuations and atomism / A.J. Kox -- The quantum enigma / Olivier Darrigol -- The experimental challenge of light quanta / Roger H. Stuewer -- "No success like failure...": Einstein's quest for general relativity, 1907-1920 / Michel Janssen -- Einstein's role in the creation of Relativistic Cosmology / Christopher Smeenk -- Einstein, gravitational waves, and the theoretician's regress / Daniel J. Kennefick -- Einstein's unified field theory program / Tilman Sauer -- Einstein's realism and his critique of quantum mechanics / Christoph Lehner -- Einstein and the development of twentieth-century philosophy of science / Don Howard -- "A believing rationalist": Einstein and "the truly valuable" in Kant / Thomas Ryckman -- Space, time, and geometry / Michael Friedman -- Einstein's politics / Robert Schulmann -- Appendix: Special relativity / Michel Janssen.
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