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Tables of Contents for Science and Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Volume Introduction
vii
Approaches to 1905: Intellectual, Cultural, Material
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
1
23
Albert Einstein
Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality
24
41
Gerald Holton
Einstein and the Cultural Roots of Modern Science
65
44
Gerald Holton
Henri Poincare's Criticism of Fin De Siecle Electrodynamics
109
44
Olivier Darrigol
Reconsidering a Scientific Revolution: the Case of Einstein Versus Lorentz
153
15
Michael Janssen
The Special Relativity Theory: Einstein's Response to the Physics of 1905
168
25
Arthur L Miller
Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time
193
36
Peter Galison
Reading Relativity
Understanding the History of Special Relativity
229
20
David Cassidy
The Relativity Revolution in Germany
249
54
Lewis Pyenson
Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity
303
20
Thomas Glick
In Defense of Ether: The British Response to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, 1905-1911
323
38
Stanley Goldberg
Cambridge Mathematics and Cavendish Physics: Cunningham, Campbell and Einstein's Relativity 1905-1911: Part 1: The Uses of Theory
361
32
Andrew Warwick
Acknowledgments
393
Volume Introduction
vii
Holes and Heuristics
Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity
1
6
Albert Einstein
Einstein's Search for General Covariance, 1912-1915
7
38
John Stachel
Einstein and Nordstrom: Some Lesser-Known Thought Experiments in Gravitation
45
28
John D. Norton
Einstein's Struggle for a Machian Gravitation Theory
73
50
Carl Hoefer
Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation
123
39
Jurgen Renn
Tilman Sauer
Eclipse and Emergence
The Birth of the Legend
162
13
Abraham Pais
Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expedition of 1919 and Their Predecessors
175
38
John Earman
Clark Glymour
Einstein's Attitude Towards Experiments: Testing Relativity Theory, 1907-1927
213
32
Klaus Hentschel
Assimilations and Appropriations
The Reception of Einstein s Ideas: Two Examples from Contrasting Political Cultures
245
30
Loren Graham
The Low Water Mark of General Relativity, 1925-1955
275
16
Jean Eisenstaedt
A Psi is Just a Psi? Pedagogy, Practice, and the Reconstitution of General Relativity, 1942-1975
291
18
David Kaiser
Acknowledgments
309
52
Volume Introduction
vii
Scientists and the State: The Legacy of World War II
1
28
Michael Fortun
Sylvan S. Schweber
Construction
29
48
Peter Bacon Hales
Mission Change in the Large Laboratory: The Los Alamos Implosion Program, 1943-1945
77
26
Lillian Hoddeson
The Fathering of the Monster: The Manhattan Project
103
19
Brian Easlea
Roots of Dissent: The Chicago Met Lab and the Origins of the Franck Report
122
24
Matt Price
The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
146
39
Peter Galison
Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960
185
81
Paul Forman
The Construction of Technical Facts
266
43
Donald MacKenzie
Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual
309
18
Hugh Gusterson
Preface, 1995: The Death of the Superconducting Super Collider in the Life of American Physics
327
34
Daniel J. Kevles
Acknowledgments
361
56
Volume Introduction
vii
Radiation, Oscillators, and Atoms
Revisiting Planck
1
22
Thomas Kuhn
Thermodynamics in Einstein's Thought
23
8
Martin Klein
Einstein, Specific Heats, and the Early Quantum Theory
31
8
Martin Klein
Classical Concepts in Bohr's Atomic Theory (1913-1925)
39
24
Olivier Darrigol
Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics
Heisenberg, Models, and the Rise of Matrix Mechanics
63
52
Edward MacKinnon
Schrodinger's Route to. Wave Mechanics
115
31
Linda Wessels
Heisenberg, Uncertainty, and the Quantum Revolution
146
7
David Cassidy
Genesis of Dirac's Relativistic Theory of Electrons
153
38
Helge Kragh
Probability, Acausality, and Culture
Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment
191
36
Paul Forman
Born's Probabilistic Interpretation: A Case Study of `Concepts in Flux'
227
26
Mara Beller
The Meanings of Quantum Mechanics
The Roots of Complementarity
253
42
Gerald Holton
The Earliest Missionaries of the Copenhagen Spirit
295
37
John Heilbron
Pascual Jordan: Quantum Mechanics, Psychology, National Socialism
332
39
M. Norton Wise
Einstein's Critique of Quantum Theory: The Roots and Significance of EPR
371
12
Arthur Fine
The Americanization of Molecular Physics
383
34
Alexi Assmus
Acknowledgments
417