The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
 The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context: A Historiographical Review  (Alexander S. Blum, Roberto Lalli, Jürgen Renn)....Pages 1-14
 The Socio-Epistemic Networks of General Relativity, 1925–1970  (Roberto Lalli, Riaz Howey, Dirk Wintergrün)....Pages 15-84
 Patronage of Gravitational Physics and the Relativity Community in the USA (1949–1959)  (Dean Rickles)....Pages 85-111
 The Fock-Infeld Dispute: An Illustration of the Renaissance of General Relativity in the Soviet Union  (Jean-Philippe Martinez)....Pages 113-139
 Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity  (Alexander S. Blum, Dieter Brill)....Pages 141-187
 Cosmological Constant Λ vs. Massive Gravitons: A Case Study in General Relativity Exceptionalism vs. Particle Physics Egalitarianism  (J. Brian Pitts)....Pages 189-219
 Toward a Quantum Theory of Gravity: Syracuse 1949–1962  (Donald Salisbury)....Pages 221-255
 Closing in on the Cosmos: Cosmology’s Rebirth and the Rise of the Dark Matter Problem  (Jaco de Swart)....Pages 257-284
 Gravitational-Wave Research as an Emerging Field in the Max Planck Society: The Long Roots of GEO600 and of the Albert Einstein Institute  (Luisa Bonolis, Juan-Andres Leon)....Pages 285-361
 The Origins of Virgo and the Emergence of the International Gravitational Wave Community  (Adele La Rana)....Pages 363-406