The Cambridge companion to Einstein / edited by Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, Christoph L...
The Cambridge companion to Einstein / edited by Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, Christoph L...
The Cambridge companion to Einstein / edited by Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota, Christoph Lehner, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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English
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1 online resource (xvi, 562 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
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: fl...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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England
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2014.
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This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's 'miracle...
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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. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions online.
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-549) and index.
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1-139-02452-3
1-139-94896-2
1-139-95001-0
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530.092 B
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991023962549102626
