The Genesis of General Relativity. Volume 1-4

Front Matter....Pages i-6
Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2: The Zurich Notebook and the Genesis of General Relativity....Pages 7-20
Classical Physics In Disarray....Pages 21-80
The First Two Acts....Pages 81-111
Pathways out of Classical Physics....Pages 113-312
Einstein's Zurich Notebook....Pages 313-487
A Commentary on the Notes on Gravity in the Zurich Notebook....Pages 489-714
What was Einstein's “Fateful Prejudice”?....Pages 715-783
What did Einstein know and when did He know it? A Besso Memo Dated August 1913....Pages 787-837
Untying the Knot: how Einstein Found his way Back to Field Equations Discarded in the Zurich Notebook....Pages 839-925
Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: An Introduction....Pages 926-944
The Third Way to General Relativity: Einstein and Mach in Context....Pages 945-1000
Gravitation....Pages 1001-1037
Considerations on Gravitation....Pages 1038-1052
Absolute or Relative Motion?....Pages 1053-1071
On Absolute and Relative Motion....Pages 1072-1080
The Continuity Between Classical and Relativistic Cosmology in the Work of Karl Schwarzschild....Pages 1081-1108
Things at Rest in the Universe....Pages 1109-1117
Breaking in the 4-Vectors: The Four-Dimensional Movement in Gravitation, 1905–1910....Pages 1118-1178
On The Dynamics of the Electron (Excerpts)....Pages 1179-1198
Mechanics and the Relativity Postulate....Pages 1199-1212
Old and New Questions in Physics (Excerpt)....Pages 1213-1228
The Summit Almost Scaled: Max Abraham as a Pioneer of a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation....Pages 1229-1255
On the Theory of Gravitation....Pages 1256-1265
The Free Fall....Pages 1266-1271
A New Theory of Gravitation....Pages 1272-1287
Recent Theories of Gravitation....Pages 1288-1336
Einstein, Nordström, and the Early Demise of Scalar, Lorentz Covariant Theories of Gravitation....Pages 1337-1411
The Principle of Relativity and Gravitation....Pages 1412-1421
Inertial and Gravitational Mass In Relativistic Mechanics....Pages 1422-1445
On the Theory of Gravitation from the Standpoint of the Principle of Relativity....Pages 1446-1466
On the Present State of the Problem of Gravitation....Pages 1467-1491
Einstein and Mach's Principle....Pages 1492-1527
On the Relativity Problem....Pages 1528-1536
Ether and the Theory of Relativity....Pages 1537-1542
Mie's Theories of Matter and Gravitation....Pages 1543-1553
Foundations of a Theory of Matter (Excerpts)....Pages 1554-1619
Remarks Concerning Einstein's Theory of Gravitation....Pages 1620-1650
The Principle of the Relativity of the Gravitational Potential....Pages 1651-1666
The Momentum-Energy Law in the Electrodynamics of Gustav Mie....Pages 1667-1679
The Origin of Hilbert's Axiomatic Method 1 ....Pages 1680-1777
Hilbert's Foundation of Physics: From a Theory of Everything to a Constituent of General Relativity....Pages 1778-1895
Einstein Equations and Hilbert Action: What is Missing on Page 8 of the Proofs for Hilbert's First Communication on the Foundations of Physics? 1 ....Pages 1896-1910
The Foundations of Physics.....Pages 1911-1924
The Foundations of Physics (First Communication)....Pages 1925-1938
The Foundations of Physics (Second Communication)....Pages 1939-1961
The Story of Newstein or: Is Gravity Just Another Pretty Force?....Pages 1962-2000
On the Relation of Non-Euclidean Geometry to Extension Theory....Pages 2001-2003
Notion of Parallelism on a General Manifold and Consequent Geometrical Specification of the Riemannian Curvature (Excerpts)....Pages 2004-2012
Purely Infinitesimal Geometry (Excerpt)....Pages 2013-2029
The Dynamics of Continuous Media and the Notion of an Affine Connection on Space-Time....Pages 2030-2053
Back Matter....Pages 2054-2088