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Einstein's Jury
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Einstein's Jury

Einstein's Jury is the dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed to test Einstein's developing theory of relativity. Weaving a rich narrative based on extensive archival research, Jeffrey Crelinsten shows how these early scientific debates shaped cultural attitudes we hold today. The book examines Einstein's theory of general relativity through the eyes of astronomers, many of whom were not convinced of the legitimacy of Einstein's startling breakthrough. These were individuals with international reputations to uphold and benefactors and shareholders to please, yet few of them understood the new theory coming from the pen of Germany's up-and-coming theoretic...

The Attraction of Gravitation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

The Attraction of Gravitation

Devoted to the history of general relativity, this text provides reviews from scholars all over the world. Many of the papers originated at the Third International Conference on the History of General Relativity, held at the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1991. Topics covered include: disputes with Einstein; the empirical basis of general relativity; variational principles in general relativity; the reception and development of general relativity; and cosmology and general relativity.

Men Against the Rule
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Men Against the Rule

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1937
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is a history of the Measurement Rule and of its effects upon yacht design. It traces the many attempts to find a satisfactory rule, or definition of the size of a yacht for racing purposes, and closes with the final adoption, on February 18, 1931, of The New York Yacht Club rule, for large yachts, Classes J, K, and L, by the Yacht Racing Association of Great Britain.

Confirmation of General Relativity Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 57

Confirmation of General Relativity Theory

On May 29, 1919, during a total solar eclipse visible from Brazil and Africa, a team of British astronomers carried out a crucial experiment to verify Albert Einstein's new theory of general relativity. Led by Arthur Eddington, they pointed their telescopes at the stars near the darkened Sun, seeking to detect Einstein's prediction that rays of stellar light would be subtly bent by the Sun's gravitational field. The success of the experiment would catapult Einstein to world fame. . This book tells the fascinating story of the ambitious 1919 experiment, its protagonists, and the rivalry between the cosmological visions of Einstein and Newton that was at stake. It details the preparations for ...

A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 621

A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century

Reproduction of the original: A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century by Agnes Mary Clerke

Report - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Report - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1925
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1924
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.

The Clean House and Other Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 542

The Clean House and Other Plays

This volume is the first publication of Sarah Ruhl, ''a playwright with a unique comic voice, perspective and sense of theater,'' (Variety) who is fast leaving her mark on the American stage. In the award-winning Clean House-a play of uncommon romance and uncommon comedy-a maid who hates cleaning dreams about creating the perfect joke, while a doctor who treats cancer leaves his heart inside one of his patients. This volume also includes Eurydice, Ruhl's reinvention of the tragic Greek tale of love and loss; Late, a cowboy song and Melancholy Play

Parliamentary Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Parliamentary Papers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1840
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Congressional Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1012

Congressional Record

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1908
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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