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4Philipp Frank on Special Relativity: 1908–1912In Paola Cantù & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories – From Peano to the Vienna Circle, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 283-301. 2023.Between 1908 and 1912, while working in Vienna, Philipp Frank wrote a dozen articles on relativity: the principle, as Einstein originally denominated it, or the theory, as others came to call it. This work was primarily responsible for his appointment in 1912 as Einstein's successor as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the German University in Prague. The paper places these articles into their narrower and broader historical context and relates them to the work of others.
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11Einstein and the History of General Relativity (edited book)Birkhäuser. 1989.Based upon the proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of General Relativity, held at Boston University's Osgood Hill Conference Center, North Andover, Massachusetts, 8-11 May 1986, this volume brings together essays by twelve prominent historians and philosophers of science and physicists. The topics range from the development of general relativity (John Norton, John Stachel) and its early reception (Carlo Cattani, Michelangelo De Maria, Anne Kox), through attempts to u…Read more
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6Einstein et «Zweistein»Revue de Synthèse 126 (2): 353-365. 2005.Comme le suggère le sobriquet « Zweistein », Wolfgang Pauli fut considéré par la communauté des théoriciens de la physique comme son membre le plus éminent après Albert Einstein. Durant plus de trente-cinq ans, les deux hommes entretinrent des relations intellectuelles et personnelles. Cet article analyse les relations entre quatre thèmes récurrents de leurs discussions. 1) La théorie de la relativité: à l'âge de 20 ans, Pauli préparait un manuel qui fera autorité sur la relativité, manuel qu'il…Read more
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39The Nature of the Physical World is one of a series of semi-popular books, extremely popular and influential in the English-speaking world, that Arthur Eddington wrote between the 1920s and the 1950s. Not only were they masterful scientific expositions, but they included attempts to defend a definite philosophical position: dualism.
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Foundations of Space-Time TheoriesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (3): 311-315. 1980.
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19In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of soc…Read more
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For Dirk Struik Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. StruikD. Reidel Pub. Co. 1974.
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5Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John StachelSpringer Verlag. 2003.This book is for physicists, historians and philosophers of physics as well as students seeking an introduction to ongoing debates in relativistic and quantum physics. This title covers the recent debates on the emergence of relativity and quantum theory. It includes chapters with an introductory character, comprehensible to students and science teachers. It strengthens the bonds between the communities of scientists, historians, and philosophers.
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80Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 1974.Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity As history, my remarks will form rather a medley. If they can claim any sort of unity (apart from a ...
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31Einstein's miraculous year: five papers that changed the face of physics (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2005.After 1905, Einstein's miraculous year, physics would never be the same again. In those twelve months, Einstein shattered many cherished scientific beliefs with five extraordinary papers that would establish him as the world's leading physicist. This book brings those papers together in an accessible format. The best-known papers are the two that founded special relativity: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content? In the former, Einstei…Read more
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37Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps; Empires of timeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (1): 202-210. 2005.
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15The theory of relativityIn R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge (eds.), Companion to the History of Modern Science, Routledge. pp. 442--56. 1990.
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6‘A Man of my Type’—Editing the Einstein PapersBritish Journal for the History of Science 20 (1): 57-66. 1987.Towards the end of the career of many a distinguished scientist, or shortly after his or her death, an edition of the scientist's articles is published under the title: ‘The Collected Papers of…’. While not wishing to slight either the ceremonial importance or real utility of such collections, they must be clearly distinguished from the sort of editions on which the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is modelled. The former are primarily intended to make the published papers of a great scientis…Read more
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23This intertwining of projective, affine, conformal and pseudo-metrical 255In Robert S. Cohen & Larry Laudan (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, D. Reidel. pp. 255. 1983.
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5Potentiality, Entanglement, and Passion-at-a-Distance: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1997.Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a meta…Read more
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From Peripheral Mathematics to a New Theory of GravitationBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 250 1041-1129. 2007.
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Einstein and HilbertIn Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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33The Rise and Fall of GeometrodynamicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1972. 1972.
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12Special relativity from measuring rodsIn Robert S. Cohen & Larry Laudan (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, D. Reidel. pp. 255--272. 1983.
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89O manuscrito de Einstein de 1912 como pista para o desenvolvimento da teoria da relatividade restritaScientiae Studia 3 (4): 583-596. 2005.
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30Einstein's 1912 manuscript as a clue to the development of special relativityScientiae Studia 3 (4): 583-596. 2005.
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24Bohr and the PhotonIn Wayne C. Myrvold & Joy Christian (eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle, Springer. pp. 69--83. 2009.
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