The Universe of General Relativity

1. Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies
John Stachel

2. Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation
Shaul Katzir

3. Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory
Jürgen Renn

4. Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy
Jürgen Renn

5. A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913
John D. Norton

6. Einstein and the Principle of General Relativity, 1916–1921
Christoph Lehner

7. Einstein and the Problem of Motion: A Small Clue
Daniel Kennefick

8. A Note on General Relativity, Energy Conservation, and Noether’s Theorems
Katherine Brading

9. Weyl vs. Reichenbach on Lichtgeometrie
Robert Rynasiewicz

10. Dingle and de Sitter Against the Metaphysicians, or Two Ways to Keep Modern Cosmology Physical
George Gale

11. George Gamow and the ‘Factual Approach’ to Relativistic Cosmology
Helge Kragh

12. George McVittie, The Uncompromising Empiricist
José M. Sánchez-Ron

13. False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation
Chris Smeenk

14. Hilbert’s “World Equations” and His Vision of a Unified Science
U. Majer, T. Sauer

15. Einstein, Kaluza, and the Fifth Dimension
Daniela Wünsch

16. Unified Field Theory: Early History and Interplay Between Mathematics and Physics
Hubert F. M. Goenner

17. Is Quantum Gravity Necessary?
James Mattingly

18. Einstein in the Daily Press: A Glimpse into the Gehrcke Papers
Milena Wazeck

19. Syracuse: 1949–1952
Joshua Goldberg

20. A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951–1961
E. T. Newman

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