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Tables of Contents for Making Special Relativity
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