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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

by Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn, Albert Einstein

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.

Accession 12839 ISBN 9780691174631 Publisher Princeton University Press
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