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The formative years of relativity : the history and meaning of Einstein's Princeton lectures, featuring Einstein's classic text The Meaning of Relativity, in its historical context / Hanoch Gutfreund, Jurgen Renn

This volume explores the early reception and development of general relativity during the 1910s and 1920s. It features original lecture texts, historical commentary, and archival documents to trace the theory's evolution into a global scientific framework.

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