‎Susskind, Leonard; Cabannes, Andre‎
‎General Relativity‎

‎Two-Body Problem in General Relativity Theory.‎

‎Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1936. 4to. In: ""The Physical Review"", Vol. 49, Second Series. X,971 pp. (Entire volume offered). Einstein & Rosen's paper: pp. 404-405.‎

‎First printing of Einstein and Rosen's answer to Silberstein's critique of Einstein's Theory of Relativity ..""Ludwik Silberstein, who initially was a supporter of the special theory, objected at different occasions against general relativity. In 1920 he argued that the deflection of light by the sun, as observed by Arthur Eddington et al. (1919), is not necessarily a confirmation of general relativity, but may also be explained by the Stokes-Planck theory of complete aether drag. However, such models are in contradiction with the aberration of light and other experiments (see ""Alternative theories""). And in 1935, Silberstein claimed to have found a contradiction in the Two-body problem in general relativity. However, also this claim was refuted by Einstein and Rosen (1935) (in the paper offered).""(Wikipedia).‎

‎Truth and Beauty - Aesthetics and Motivations in Science , (The scientist, 1946 - The pursuit of science : Its motivations, 1985 - The Nora and Edward Ryerson lecture : Shakespeare, Newton and Beethoven, patterns of creativity , 1975 - Beauty and the quest for beauty in science, 1979 - Milne Lectures : Edward Arthur Milne : His part in the development of modern astrophysics, 1979 - Arthur Stanley Eddington centenary lectures, 1982 : Eddington, the most distinguished astrophysicist of this time - The expositor and the exponent of general relativity - Karl Schwarzschild lecture : The aesthetic base of the general theory of relativity, 1986)‎

‎The University of Chicago Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1987 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's white and grey printed dust-jacket grand In-8 1 vol. - 180 pages‎

‎a few black and white text-figures and two tables in text 1st edition, 1987 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, x, Text, 170 pages - The scientist, 1946 - The pursuit of science : Its motivations, 1985 - The Nora and Edward Ryerson lecture : Shakespeare, Newton and Beethoven, patterns of creativity , 1975 - Beauty and the quest for beauty in science, 1979 - Milne Lectures : Edward Arthur Milne : His part in the development of modern astrophysics, 1979 - Arthur Stanley Eddington centenary lectures, 1982 : Eddington, the most distinguished astrophysicist of this time - The expositor and the exponent of general relativity - Karl Schwarzschild lecture : The aesthetic base of the general theory of relativity, 1986 near fine copy, the editor's dust-jacket is fine, very lightly yellowing, inside is fine, clean and unmarked, a rather nice copy‎

‎Über den physikalischen Sinn der Relativitätspostulate. A. Einsteins neue und seine ursprüngliche Relativitätstheorie. - [CLAIMING THE GENERAL RELATIVITY IS VACUOUS]‎

‎Leipzig, Barth, 1917. 8vo. In full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vol. 53, 1917. Entire volume offered. Library labels pasted on to front free end papers, stamp to title page. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 575-614. [Entire volume: VIII, 650 pp. + 4 plates.].‎

‎First printing of Kretschmann famous paper in which he claimed that Einstein's use of the principle of covariance in General Relativity is vacuous. Kretschmann claimed that the demand that a theory be put in generally covariant form does not limit or restrict the range of acceptable theories, but is simply a challenge to the mathematician's ingenuity. According to Kretschmann, any theory can be put in generally covariant form. Einstein responded that even if general covariance is not a purely formal limitation on acceptable theories, it plays ""an important heuristic role"" in the formulation of General Relativity.""Erich Justus Kretschmann (born in Berlin in 1887) had just gotten his doctorate under the guidance of Max Planck by attempting to provide a Lorentzcovariant theory of gravitation. In December 1915 he published a two-part paper with a certain epistemological flavor (Kretschmann, 1915), in which, by relying on the work of Henri Poincaré and Ernst Mach, he argued that only ""topological"" relations encoded in pointcoincidences are directly accessible to experience (Sect. 3). It was only shortly after the paper was distributed that Einstein started to use the expression ""point-coincidences"" in private correspondence with Paul Ehrenfest, MicheleBesso and Hendrik Lorentz, in order to convince them that solutions of the field-equations that differ only by a coordinate transformation are physically equivalent (Sect. 2). Einstein then abruptly inserted the argument into thequite different mathematical tradition that had culminated in Ricci and Levi-Civita’s absolute differential calculus (Sect. 4). Kretschmann himself swiftly realized this, and in August 1917 he turned the public version of the pointcoincidence argument against Einstein in a paper that would make him famous [The present]. The paper rediscovered by James L. Anderson in the mid-1960s was destined to become a classic and has therefore been widely discussed in the historical and philosophical literature.""‎

‎Mach's Principle and a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation. - [THE BRANS-DICKE THEORY - THE FAMOUS CONTESTOR TO EINSTEIN'S GENERAL RELATIVITY]‎

‎Lancaster, American Institute of Physics, 1961. Lex8vo. Volume 124, November 1, No. 3, 1961 of ""The Physical Review"", Second Series. Entire volume offered. In the original printed blue wrappers. Minor discolouring to wrappers, and bottom corner of front wrapper slightly bent. Previous owner's name to top right corner of front wrapper. Overall a very nice and clean copy. Pp. 925-939. [Entire issue: Pp. 637-964].‎

‎First publication of the influential paper in which the Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation, a theoretical framework to explain gravitation, is presented for the first time. The theory is probably the most famous contestor to Einstein's general theory of relativity. ""The best motivated, least complicated, and relatively most viable among the alternatives to general relativity is probably the scalar-tensor theory of gravitation proposed in 1961 by Carl Brans and Robert Dicke"" (Jammer, Max, Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy, 2000, p. 136).‎

‎Weil G. Space. Time. Matter. Lectures on General Relativity. In Russian /Veyl ‎

‎Weil G. Space. Time. Matter. Lectures on General Relativity. In Russian /Veyl G. Prostranstvo. Vremya. Materiya. Lektsii po obshchey teorii otnositelnosti. M. Janus-K 1996. 472s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb9edf538507c0b490.‎