Philosophical Interpretations of Relativity Theory : 1910 - 19301
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This paper is a summary of my doctoral dissertation on philosophical interpretations of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, submitted to the Dept. for History of Science, Univ. of Hamburg, in 1989, which was recently published in the Series Science Networks at Birkauser.i After a brief overview of its content I will focus on a discussion of the method employed to analyse philosophical interpretations of a physical theory.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007