The Comparative Reception of Relativity

The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari­ ties in the recept...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Glick, T.F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Stanley Goldberg/Putting New Wine in Old Bottles: The Assimilation of Relativity in America
  • Jose M. Sanchez-Ron/The Reception of Special Relativity in Great Britain
  • Lewis Pyenson/The Relativity Revolution in Germany
  • Michel Paty/The Scientific Reception of Relativity in France
  • Michel Biezunski/Einstein’s Reception in Paris in 1922
  • Barbara J. Reeves/Einstein Politicized: The Early Reception of Relativity in Italy
  • Thomas F. Glick/Relativity in Spain
  • V.P. Vizginand G.E. Gorelik/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR
  • Bronis?aw ?Redniawa/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Poland
  • Tsutomu Kaneko/Einstein’s Impact on Japanese Intellectuals
  • Thomas F. Glick/Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity