Why was relativity accepted?

DOI10.1007/s000160050015zbMath1058.01006OpenAlexW2139675849MaRDI QIDQ1975214

Stephen G. Brush

Publication date: 1999

Published in: Physics in Perspective (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s000160050015

zbMATH Keywords

predictionsastronomyAlbert Einsteinmathematicsreceptionbirth ordersocial constructionadvance of perihelion of Mercuryaesthetic factorsArthur Stanley Eddington.gravitational light-bendingMichelson-Morley experimentRelativity theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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