The Universe of General Relativity

* Preface * Stachel: Fresnel's (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies * Katzir: Poincaré's Relativistic Theory of Gravitation * Renn: Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossman's Erroneous Entwurf Theory * Renn: Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein's Double Strategy * Norton: A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913 * Lehner: Einstein and the Principle of General Relativity, 1916–1921 * Kennefick: Einstein and the Problem of Motion: A Small Clue * Brading: A Note on General Relativity, Energy Conservation, and Noether's Theorems * Rynasiewicz: Weyl vs. Reichenbach on Lichtgeometrie * Gale: Dingle and de Sitter Against the Metaphysicians, or Two Ways to Keep Modern Cosmology Physical * Kragh: George Gamow and the 'Factual Approach' to Relativistic Cosmology * Sánchez-Ron: George McVittie, The Uncompromising Empiricist * Smeenk: False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation * Majer and Sauer: Hilbert's 'World Equations' and His Vision of a Unified Science * Wünsch: Einstein, Kaluza and the Fifth Dimension * Goenner: Unified Field Theory: Early History and Interplay between Mathematics and Physics * Mattingly: Is Quantum Gravity Necessary? * Wazeck: Einstein in the Daily Press: A Glimpse into the Gehrcke Papers * Goldberg: Syracuse: 1949–1952 * Newman: A Biased and PersonalDescription of GR at Syracuse University, 1951–1961