Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe: One Hundred Authors for Einstein
Book Description
This book is dedicated to the changes in our worldview that are due to the work of Albert Einstein. It comprises essays and aperTus from more than lO0 authors, who examine the life and work of Einstein from very differ-ent perspectives. The intention is to give the reader the pleasure of wandering through the same worlds that Einstein did. The first section looks at the question of how worldviews arise through the aquisition of know-ledge, and how new insights can cause these world-views to collapse. The essays in the second section are dedicated to private issues, such as Einstein's love of music, as well as to the central scientific aspects of his life's work, for example, the concept of inertia or gravi-tatinal lensing. The third section deals with issues of contemporary science such as astrophysics and cosmol-ogy as well as quantum mechanics and particle physics.This final section also examines the political legacy of Einstein's work.
Among the authors are prominent scientists from all over the world, who are able to communicate to readers without academic preparation an overview of the present status of research related to Einstein.
Table Of Content
JUrgen Renn
Preface
Gerhard SchrOder
Address at the Launch of the Einstein Year on 19 January 2005
Yehuda Elkana
Einstein's Legacy
WORLDVIEW AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
JUrgen Renn, UIf von Rauchhaupt
In the Laboratory of Knowledge
Henning Vierck
Comenius and Einstein as Educators
Katja B6deker
Time in the Embryonic Stage
Renate Wahsner
Absolute Space: Mach vs. Newton
Falk MUller
Why Does a Light Mill Revolve? A Historical Look
Lidia Falomo, Carla Garbarino
The Leyden Jar
Lucio Fregonese
Volta's Battery in Einstein and Infeld's The Evolution of Physics
Fable Bevilacqua,Stefano Bordoni
Electromagnetic Induction: Symmetries and Interpretations
Shaul Katzir
Electricity and Heat: The Connections Between Two Invisible Forces
Thomas Jung
Is Radiation Healthy or Does It Make Us Sick?
Klaus A. Vogel
The Revolution in the Image of the Earth
Enrico Antonio Giaenetto
Giordano Bruno and the Origins of Relativity
Jochen BUttner
Of Dwarves and Giants: The Transformation of Astronomical Worldviews
Matthias Schemmel
Curved Universes Before Einstein: Karl Schwarzschild's Cosmological Speculations
Eberhard Knobloch
Truth and Freedom in Mathematics: The Emergence of Non-Euclidean Geometry in the 19th Century
Volkmar SchUller
Newton's Worldview
EINSTE-HIS LIFE'S PATH
Thomas de Padova
Riding on a Beam of Light
Gereon Wolters
Albert Einstein and Ernst Mach
Anne J. Kox
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein
Clayton Gearhart
Black-Body Radiation
Charlotte Bigg
Brownian Motion
Jordi Cat
Einstein and James Clerk Maxwell: Unification, Imagination and Light
Stefan Siemer
"In the Brightest Arc Lamps and Incandescent Lights": The Electrical Factory ]akob Einstein und Cie
Peter Galison
Einstein's Compass
Lea Cardinali
A Fifteen-Year Old With Very Clear Ideas: Albert Einstein
Fabio Bevilacqua Stefano Bordoni
Einstein's 1895 Pavia Paper
Volker Barth
Universal Exhibitions and the Popularization of Science in the 19th Century
David Kaiser
Einstein's Teachers
Robert Schulmann
Einstein's Swiss Years
Scott Walter
Henri Poincar6 and the Theory of Relativity
Horst Kant
Albert Einstein and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin
Christian Sichau
6 m2 Wall Space and Two Misplaced Artifacts: The Theory of Relativity in the Deutsches Museum
Domenico Giulini
What is Inertia?
Daniel Kennefick
Astronomers Test General Relativity: Light-bending and the Solar Redshift
Gerhard Hartl
The Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity by the British Eclipse Expedition of 1919
Hans Wilderotter
The Einstein Tower: Its Genesis and Function
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STATEMENTS ON EINSTEIN'S HERITAGE
APPENDIX
Authors
bibliography
links
Name Index
Image Index