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The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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The Comparative Reception of Relativity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 103
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The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo
quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25,
1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg,
and Judith Goodstein ) offered both sufficient comparability to
establish regulari ties in the reception of relativity and
Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy,
and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national
inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants
and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience
suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more
inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we
could muster. Only general guidelines were given to the authors: to
treat the special or general theories, or both, hopefully in a
multidisciplinary setting, to examine the popular reception of
relativity, or Einstein's personal impact, or to survey all these
topics. In a previous volume, on the 2 comparative reception of
Darwinism, one of us devised a detailed set of guidelines which in
general were not followed. In our opinion, the studies in this
collection offer greater comparability, no doubt because relativity
by its nature and its complexity offers a sharper, more easily
bounded target. As in the Darwinism volume, this book concludes
with an essay intended to draw together in comparative perspective
some of many themes addressed by the participants."
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