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Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics

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    Chapter 1 Theories of Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics
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    Chapter 2 The Newtonian Theory of Light Propagation
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    Chapter 3 Mach and Einstein, or, Clearing Troubled Waters in the History of Science
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    Chapter 4 Tilling the Seedbed of Einstein’s Politics: A Pre-1905 Harbinger?
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    Chapter 5 The Early Reception of Einstein’s Relativity among British Philosophers
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    Chapter 6 Science and Ideology in Einstein’s Visit to South America in 1925
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    Chapter 7 The Reception of Einstein’s Relativity Theories in Literature and the Arts (1920–1950)
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    Chapter 8 Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method and His “Foundations of Physics”: Reconciling Causality with the Axiom of General Invariance
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    Chapter 9 Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington, and the Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition
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    Chapter 10 Peter Havas (1916–2004)
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    Chapter 11 Peter Bergmann and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics
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    Chapter 12 Thoughts About a Conceptual Framework for Relativistic Gravity
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    Chapter 13 Observational Tests of General Relativity: An Historical Look at Measurements Prior to the Advent of Modern Space-Borne Instruments
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    Chapter 14 Primordial Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background
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    Chapter 15 Singularity Theorems in General Relativity: Achievements and Open Questions
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    Chapter 16 The History and Present Status of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
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    Chapter 17 The Border Between Relativity and Quantum Theory
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    Chapter 18 The Issue of the Beginning in Quantum Gravity
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Title
Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics
Published by
Birkhäuser Boston, February 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-4940-1
ISBNs
978-0-8176-4939-5, 978-0-8176-4940-1
Editors

Lehner, Christoph, Renn, Jürgen, Schemmel, Matthias

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Singapore 1 5%
Unknown 20 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Researcher 3 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Student > Master 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 3 14%
Physics and Astronomy 3 14%
Philosophy 2 10%
Chemistry 2 10%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 4 19%
Unknown 6 29%