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Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe, 2 Volumes
Jurgen Renn (Editor)
ISBN: 978-3-527-40571-8
Hardcover
816 pages
January 2006
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Preface.

Greetings.

Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgments.

WORLDVIEW AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION.

On the Shoulders of Giants and Dwarves.

Invisible Forces.

Gravity and Intertia.

Chemical Changes.

Light, Heat, Magnetism, Electricity.

Labyrinth of Mikroworlds.

Models of the Cosmos.

Modelle of the Earth.

Advancing Towards Infinity.

Models of the Heavens.

Curved Spaces.

EINSTEIN— HIS LIFE'S PATH.

Borderline Problems in Classical Physics.

Irritating Experiments.

Milieu of a Childhood.

Milieu of a Revolution.

Academic Career.

War and Revolution.

The Unfinished Quantum Revolution.

The Riddle of Gravitation.

The Second Revolution.

The Triumph of the Theory of Relativity.

The Anti-Relativists.

Albert Einstein as Public Figure.

Wave and Particle as a Persistent Contradiction.

Towards a new Cosmology.

The Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics.

The Search for the Unity of Nature.

Einstein and Judaism.

Emigration.

Einstein in America.

EINSTEIN'S WORLD TODAY.

What is Science?

Putting Relativity to the Test.

Them Large Scale Structure of the World.

Gravitation as a Challenge.

The Small Scale Structure of the World.

Strange Connections.

Applications.

The Theory of Relativity Under Suspicion.

Einstein Under Suspicion.

The Atomic Bomb.

Science as ab Challenge.

Science in the Media.

Einstein, the Legend.

Appendix.

 

 

 

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