Einstein in Context

This special issue of Science and Context examines the entire area of scientific inquiry surrounding Einstein, presenting controversies and debates within their contexts.

Mara Beller (Author), Robert S. Cohen (Author), Jürgen Renn (Author)

9780521448345, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 October 1993

372 pages
24.2 x 17.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.726 kg

This special issue of Science and Context examines the entire area of scientific inquiry surrounding Einstein, presenting controversies and debates within their contexts.

Editors' introduction
Part I. The Early Professional Context: 1. Einstein at the Patent Office: exile, salvation, or tactical retreat? Robert Schulmann
2. Einstein, inventors, and invention Thomas P. Hughes
3. Einstein and Lorentz: more than just good colleagues A. J. Kox
Part II. The Context of Reception: 4. The witches' sabbath: the first international Solvay congress in physics Diana Kormos Barkan
5. Dark bodies and black holes, magic circles and Montgolfiers: light and gravitation from Newton to Einstein Jean Eisenstaedt
6. The reaction to relativity theory I: the anti-Einstein campaign in Germany in 1920 Hubert Groenner
Part III. The Experimental Context: 7. The conversion of St John: a case study on the interplay of theory and experiment Klaus Hentschel
8. Mass-energy and the neutrons in the early thirties Roger H. Stuewer
Part IV. The Philosophical Context: 9. Einstein and Bohr's rhetoric of complementarity Mara Beller
10. Einstein's interpretations of the quantum theory Arthur Fine
11. The other Einstein: Einstein contra field theory John Stachel
12. Struggling with causality: Einstein's case Jemina Ben-Menahem
13. Einstein as a disciple of Galileo: a comparative study of concept development in physics Jürgen Renn
Part V. The Context of Classical Physics: 14. Carl Gottfried Neumann Robert DiSalle
15. The principles of the Galilean-Newtonian theory Carl Neumann.

Subject Areas: Popular science [PDZ], History of science [PDX]