The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity

The articles in this volume by leading physicists and historians of science are an outgrowth of the Fourth International Conference on the History of General Relativity. The broad range of topics include: -- Genesis and Evolution of Weyl's Reflections on de Sitter's Universe -- The Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems -- Milne, Bondi and the Second Way to Cosmology -- Einstein, Relativity, and Gravitation Research in Vienna before 1938 -- Point Coincidences and Pointer Coincidences: Einstein on the Invariant Content of Spacetime Theories -- Rotation as the nemesis of Einstein's Entwurf Theory -- Controversies in the History of the Radiation Reaction problem in General Relativity -- Steady State Cosmology and General Relativity -- The Search for Gravitational Absorption in the Early 20th Century -- The Cosmological Woes of Newtonian Gravitation Theory -- Heuristics and Mathematical Representation in Einstein's Search for a Gravitational Field Equation -- Einstein and the others -- Kretschmann's Analysis of Covariance and Relativity Principles -- Larmor and Lodge versus General Relativity -- Minkowski, mathematicians, and the mathematical theory of relativity.