The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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A History of Modern Cosmology John David North. CHAPTER 3 FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO REPHRASE NEWTON'S THEORY OF GRAVITATION IN THE first chapter we examined nineteenth - century nebular astro- nomy - a sine qua non of relativistic ...
A History of Modern Cosmology John David North. CHAPTER 3 FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO REPHRASE NEWTON'S THEORY OF GRAVITATION IN THE first chapter we examined nineteenth - century nebular astro- nomy - a sine qua non of relativistic ...
Síða 52
... THEORY OF GRAVITATION 1. GRAVITATION AND LIGHT . THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVA- LENCE THE advent of the restricted theories of relativity in the early twentieth century promised new methods of approaching the problems of gravi- tation . Three ...
... THEORY OF GRAVITATION 1. GRAVITATION AND LIGHT . THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVA- LENCE THE advent of the restricted theories of relativity in the early twentieth century promised new methods of approaching the problems of gravi- tation . Three ...
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... theory of gravitation found itself for almost thirty years after its first formula- tion . Whitehead's theory , like Birkhoff's , uses a flat ... THEORIES OF GRAVITATION OF Whitehead's theory of gravitation and its extension by J L Synge.
... theory of gravitation found itself for almost thirty years after its first formula- tion . Whitehead's theory , like Birkhoff's , uses a flat ... THEORIES OF GRAVITATION OF Whitehead's theory of gravitation and its extension by J L Synge.
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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