Philosophy in science – a case study of the reception of the Special and the General Theory of Relativity in Kraków and Lwów before 1925

Philosophy in science – a case study of the reception of the Special and the General Theory of Relativity in Kraków and Lwów before 1925

A centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity brings forward some questions with regard to the impact of Einstein’s theory on philosophy. This theory, and the chronologically earlier Special Theory of Relativity, have had many important philosophical implications. In Poland they provoked in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paweł Polak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences 2016-11-01
Series:Studia Historiae Scientiarum
Subjects:
history of physics
philosophy of science
philosophy in science
philosophy of physics
Special Theory of Relativity
General Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein
Ernst Mach
Bronislaw Biegeleisen
Maksymilian T. Huber
Stanislaw Loria
Zygmunt Zawirsk
Stanislaw Zaremba
Tadeusz Banachiewicz
Lwów
Kraków
Online Access:http://www.ejournals.eu/pliki/art/8049/16.010.6153.pdf

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