Jean EISENSTAEDT (Observatoire de Paris)

History of General Relativity

2 lectures: 13, 23 October 2006

- Insights in the history of general relativity.
- Einstein, from principles to observations.

- General relativity: a difficult reception.

- The early interpretation of the Schwarschild solution.
- Cosmology, the early years.
- Einstein, general relativity and epistemology.
- Before relativity.