The Reinvention of General Relativity: A Historiographical Framework for Assessing One Hundred Years of Curved Space-time.
The history of the theory of general relativity presents unique features. After its discovery, the theory was immediately confirmed and rapidly changed established notions of space and time. The further implications of general relativity, however, remained largely unexplored until the mid 1950s, whe...
| Publicado en: | Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society Vol. 106; no. 3; pp. 598 - 621 |
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University of Chicago Press
Sep2015
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