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This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's 'miracle year', 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einstein's path to the general theory of relativity (1915) and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and gravitational waves. Essays on Einstein's later years examine his unified field theory program and his critique of quantum mechanics. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings.

Einstein, Albert --- Physics --- History --- Einstein, Albert, --- Physicists --- Biography --- Physicists - Biography --- Physics - History - 20th century --- Einstein, Albert, - 1879-1955

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History of physics --- anno 1900-1999 --- Physics --- Physique --- History --- Histoire --- -Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- -Physics --- -History --- -History of physics --- Physics - History - 20th century

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Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally independently of natural philosophy. Although this began slowly to change in the late Middle Ages, a much more thoroughgoing union of natural philosophy and mathematics occurred in the seventeenth century and thereby made the Scientific Revolution possible. The title of Isaac Newton's great work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, perfectly reflects the new relationship. Natural philosophy became the 'Great Mother of the Sciences', which by the nineteenth century had nourished the manifold chemical, physical, and biological sciences to maturity, thus enabling them to leave the 'Great Mother' and emerge as the multiplicity of independent sciences we know today.

Physics --- Science --- Physique --- Sciences --- History. --- Histoire --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Physics - History. --- Science - History.

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Astronomy --- -Physics --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Space sciences --- History --- Physics --- Science --- Science - History. --- Physics - History. --- Astronomy - History.

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Huygens, Christiaan --- Newton, Isaac --- Barrow, Isaac --- Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical physics --- History --- 544.273.4 --- #WBIB:dd.Lic.L.De Busschere --- Quasicrystalline model (physical chemistry) --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematics --- 517.1 --- 17th century --- Mathematical analysis - History - 17th century. --- Mathematical physics - History - 17th century. --- Mathematical analysis - History - 17th century --- Mathematical physics - History - 17th century