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| Antiquity | |||
| 1 | Einstein's 1917 Cosmology Paper Albert Einstein, "Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity" 1917 |
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| Warm up: Albert Einstein, "The Foundation of the General Theory of
Relativity," Sections 1-2 only. |
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| (1917 paper) Introduction and Sect. 1 "The Newtonian Theory" |
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| Sect. 2 "The Boundary Conditions According to the General Theory
of Relativity." |
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| Sect. 3 "The Spatially Finite Universe with a Uniform Matter
Distribution" |
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| Sect. 4 "On an Additional Term for the Field Equations of
Gravitation" |
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| Sect. 5 "Calculation and Result" |
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| 2 | De Sitter responds de Sitter, W. "On the relativity of inertia. Remarks concerning Einstein's latest hypothesis," in: KNAW, Proceedings, 19 II, 1917, Amsterdam, 1917, pp. 1217-1225. Background: De Sitter Spacetime and Space in de Sitter Spacetime in "Big Bang Cosmology" in John D. Norton, Einstein for Everyone Erwin Schroedinger, Expanding Universes. Cambridge U. P., 1956. Ch. 1, see pp. 1-3. |
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| Paradox of Newtonian cosmology John D. Norton, "The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory," in H. Goenner, J. Renn, J. Ritter and T. Sauer, eds., The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity: Einstein Studies, volume 7, Boston: Birkhäuser, pp. 271-322. John D. Norton, "The Force of Newtonian Cosmology: Acceleration is Relative" Philosophy of Science, 62, pp.511-22. |
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| 3 | Lemaitre and the first expanding universes | ||
| 4 | Milne's axiomatic cosmology | ||
| Middle Ages | |||
| 5 | Steady state cosmology | ||
| 7 | Penzias and Wilson, Cosmic background
radiation Big bang cosmology ascends p. 75 in Andrew Liddle, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology. Wiley. |
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