Janssen, Michel (2004) Relativity. [Preprint]

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A brief review (~8K words) of the history and philosophy of special and general relativity for a Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Janssen, Michel
Additional Information:	This article has appeared in: Maryanne Cline Horowitz et al. (eds.), New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004, Pp. 2039-2047.
Keywords:	relativity, Lorentz invariance, theorem of corresponding states, Einstein, Lorentz, equivalence principle, general covariance, hole argument, point-coincidence argument, Newton's bucket, Mach's principle, cosmological constant, De Sitter
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Michel Janssen
Date Deposited:	28 Apr 2004
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:12
Item ID:	1733
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	April 2004
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1733

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