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" 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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658686
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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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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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xvi, 562 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780521828345 (hardback : alk. paper : v. 1)
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: 0521828341 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9780521535427 (paperback)
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: 0521535425 (paperback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-549) and index
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Introduction / Michel Janssen and Christoph Lehner -- Einstein's Copernican Revolution / Jürgen 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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"The first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprised of fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work."--Page 4 of cover
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Einstein, Albert,1879-1955
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Physicists, Biography
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Physics-- History-- 20th century
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530.092B
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QC16.E5C36 2014
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Janssen, Michel,1960-
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Lehner, Christoph,1962-
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