Jürgen Renn is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where, together with his group, he researches structural changes in systems of knowledge. His books include, with Hanoch Gutfreund,
The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein”s Princeton Lectures and
The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein”s “The Foundation of General Relativity” (both Princeton).
26 Ebooks door Jurgen Renn
Jürgen Renn: The Evolution of Knowledge
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human …
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Albert Einstein: Relativity
A handsome annotated edition of Einstein’s celebrated book on relativity After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Int …
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€18.99
Christoph Lehner & Jürgen Renn: Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics
This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that …
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€96.29
Hanoch Gutfreund & Jürgen Renn: The Road to Relativity
An annotated facsimile edition of Einstein’s handwritten manuscript on the foundations of general relativity This richly annotated facsimile edition of ‘The Foundation of General Relativity’ introduc …
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€26.99
Hanoch Gutfreund & Jürgen Renn: The Formative Years of Relativity
First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of relati …
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€34.99
Jürgen Renn: The Genesis of General Relativity
The transition from classical to modern physics in the ?rst half of the twentieth c- tury by quantum and relativity theories affected some of the most fundamental notions of physical thinking, such a …
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Kostas Gavroglu & Jürgen Renn: Positioning the History of Science
The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history …
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Theodore Arabatzis & Jürgen Renn: Relocating the History of Science
This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history …
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€117.69
Bretislav Friedrich & Dieter Hoffmann: One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud p …
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Rivka Feldhay & Jürgen Renn: Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
This book is divided into two sections. The first section is concerned with the emergence and expansion of a form of mechanical knowledge defined by us as pre-classical mechanics. The definition purp …
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€139.09
Angelo Baracca & Jürgen Renn: The History of Physics in Cuba
This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba’s scientific system from the colonial period to the present. It is …
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Sonja Brentjes & Jurgen Renn: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. …
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Sonja Brentjes & Jurgen Renn: Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. …
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€51.36
Peter Damerow & Gideon Freudenthal: Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
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Peter Damerow & Gideon Freudenthal: Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
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Wolfgang Lefevre & Jurgen Renn: Power of Images in Early Modern Science
Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work- must …
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Hanoch Gutfreund & Jürgen Renn: Einstein on Einstein
New perspectives on the iconic physicist’s scientific and philosophical formation At the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Li …
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€46.99
Jed Z. Buchwald: Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime …
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Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric
In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to mu …
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€25.99
Alexander S. Blum & Roberto Lalli: The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context
This contributed volume explores the renaissance of general relativity after World War II, when it transformed from a marginal theory into a cornerstone of modern physics. Chapters explore key histor …
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Moritz Schlick & Albert Einstein: Briefwechsel
Die Korrespondenz zwischen Albert Einstein, dem bedeutendsten Naturforscher der Neuzeit und Physik-Nobelpreisträger von 1921, und Moritz Schlick, dem Begründer des »Wiener Kreises«, erscheint mit die …
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Michel Janssen & Jürgen Renn: How Einstein Found His Field Equations
Einstein’s field equations of gravitation are a core element of his general theory of relativity. In four short communications to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in November 1015, we …
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Jürgen Renn: Die Evolution des Wissens
Die Evolution des Wissens erzählt in sechzehn Kapiteln die faszinierende Wissensgeschichte der Menschheit. Anhand von Schlüsselepisoden aus der Entwicklung von Wissenschaft und Technik, von der Erfin …
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€39.99
Hanoch Gutfreund & Jürgen Renn: Einstein über Einstein
Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde Albert Einstein eingeladen, seine intellektuelle Autobiografie für die Library of Living Philosophers zu schreiben. Das Ergebnis war sein einzigartiger Text, Auto …
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Jürgen Renn & Hanoch Gutfreund: The Einsteinian Revolution
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein’s work in the early twentieth century transformed o …
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€33.99
Hanoch Gutfreund & Jurgen Renn: Einstein über Einstein
Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde Albert Einstein eingeladen, seine intellektuelle Autobiografie für die Library of Living Philosophers zu schreiben. Das Ergebnis war sein einzigartiger Text, Auto …
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