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History Topic: General Relativity
An outline of the development of the theory, including a summary of relevant earlier work (from Aristotle to Maxwell); from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/General_relativity.html
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Einstein's Time
A discussion of the differences in perspective between Einstein and Poincaré between Peter Galison (Harvard) and Graham Burnett (Princeton); main focus are the notions of time and simultaneity.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay-einsteins-time.htm
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Einstein's Discovery of Relativity
Essay by John Stachel (Boston University) which gives a concise account of Einstein's biography at the turn of the century, and attempts to reconstruct how he developed the special theory of relativity.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay-einstein-relativity.htm
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History Topic: Special Relativity
Concise summary of the history of special relativity, from Maxwell and Lorentz to Einstein; from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Special_relativity.html
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Olinto De Pretto
Wikipedia article about the Italian industrialist and claims that he published the famous formula E=mc² two years before Einstein did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinto_De_Pretto
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Relativity Priority Dispute
Wikipedia article about the various contributors to special and general relativity, and about the contentious questions of who has priority on the different ideas and concepts involved, and in how far Einstein was influenced by his contemporaries and pre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
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