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Einstein and Hilbert: The Creation of General Relativity
Discusses the correspondence between the two, their priority dispute, and their amicable resolution of it. By Ivan T. Todorov.
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504179
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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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Einstein's Articles in "Annalen der Physik"
Website by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) presenting the seminal articles on relativity and other subjects that Einstein published in the physics journal "Annalen der Physik"; also includes four introductory essays
http://einstein-annalen.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/home
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Of Pots and Holes: Einstein’s Bumpy Road to General Relativity
Article tracing the history of general relativity, by the historian of science Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota).
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~janss011/pdf%20files/potsandholes.pdf
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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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History of Special Relativity
Wikipedia article on the genesis and development of special relativity and its precursors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity
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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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