Leo Corry Director - The Cohn Institute for History
and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Tel-Aviv University,
Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel
   
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Publications - Relativity
         (full list, in inverse chronological order)


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"Mie’s Electromagnetic Theory of Matter and the Background to Hilbert’s Unified Foundations of Physics" in Joseph Kouneiher (ed.) Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert - New Perspectives, New York, Spriner (2018): 75-96. (Parts of this article appeared in my previous work on Hilbert, and particularly in this publication.)


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"Hilbert's 6th Problem: Between the Foundations of Geometry and the Axiomatization of Physics", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 376 (2118); 28 April 2018.


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"Albert Einstein and Relativity: One Hundred Years of History - One Hundred years of Historiography" (Hebrew), Zmanim - Quarterly Journal of History, Tel-Aviv, 71 (2007): 58-69

אלברט אינשטיין ותורת היחסות: מאה שנים של היסטוריה - מאה שנים של היסטוריוגרפיה,  זמנים


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"The Origin of Hilbert's Axiomatic Method". In: Jürgen Renn et  al (eds.). The Genesis of General Relativity, Vol. 4 Theories of Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: The Promise of Mathematics and the Dream of a Unified Theory, New York, Springer (2006), pp. 139-236.


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"Axiomatics, Empiricism, and Anschauung in Hilbert´s Conception of Geometry: Between Arithmetic and General Relativity". In: Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós (eds.) The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press (2006), 155-176.

"Relativity and Mathematics", in The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography, Edited by Joseph W. Dauben, Revised Edition on CD-ROM, Albert C. Lewis in Cooperation with the International Comission on the History of Mathematics, Providence, The American Mathematical Society (2000).

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"From Mie's Electromagnetic Theory of Matter to Hilbert's Foundations of Physics" Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30(2): 159-183 (1999).

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"Einstein, Hilbert y la Teoría General de la Relatividad", Investigación y Ciencia 206 (Nov. 1998): 28-34.

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"Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute" (with Jürgen Renn and John Stachel), Science 278: 1270-1273 (Nov. 14, 1998).

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“Hermann Minkowski and the Postulate of Relativity”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 51: 281-314 (1997).