Willem de Sitter : Einstein's friend and opponent /: Einstein's friend and opponent. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan Guichelaar.
• Authors: Guichelaar, Jan, 1945-
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Explanatory Notes; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Astronomy in Leiden till De Sitter's Arrival; The First Two Centuries; Frederik Kaiser; A Few Observers; Kaiser as Auditor of the Empire's Nautical Instruments; Photography; Hendricus (Hendrik) Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1838-1923); Ernst Frederik van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1848-1918); References; 2 Descent: Patricians, Lawyers and Politicians; From Flanders, via Leiden and Amsterdam, to Groningen; Wolter Reinolt, Primogenitor of Lawyers and Civil Servants; Willem de Sitter (1750-1827) Johan de Sitter (1793-1855), SoldierWillem de Sitter (1820-1889), Mayor of Groningen; References; 3 Youth and Education; The De Sitter Family; Willem's Sister Wobbine and Brother Ernst Karel Johan; Career of Father Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter; Willem's Time at the City Grammar School; Study in Groningen; How Astronomy Came into De Sitter's Life; References; 4 The Making of an Astronomer; Short History of the Royal Observatory of Cape Town; David Gill (1843-1914); David Gill Makes De Sitter an Astronomer; Marriage and Return to The Netherlands; Writing a Dissertation; References 5 The Galilean Moons of JupiterThe Discovery of the Moons by Galileo; Perturbation Theory; De Sitter's Dissertation; The Sampson Case; Libration; Gill's Last Years; References; 6 The Road to Professor in Leiden; Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922); Assistant and Private Lecturer with Kapteyn; Membership of the Natural Sciences Society in Groningen; Other Publications Until 1908; De Sitter's Appointment as a Professor in Leiden; References; 7 Leiden Activities; Inaugural Lectures of De Sitter and Van de Sande Bakhuyzen; Education; Relation with Van de Sande Bakhuyzen; Faculty Work De Sitter's HealthThe Leiden Ambiance; The Netherlands Academy of Sciences; The Academy as (Inter)National Advisory Board; Internal Academy Committees; The Holland Society of Sciences; References; 8 Fundamental Work and a New Theory of Jupiter's Satellites; Newton's Gravitation and Perturbation Theory; Aspects of De Sitter's Fundamental Work; De Sitter's Publications; The Influence of the Special Theory of Relativity on Gravitational Astronomy; Absorption of Gravitation; Ether or no Ether; De Sitter Provides an Experimentum Crucis; To the New Theory of the Jovian Satellites; The New Theory De Sitter and Brouwer on Astronomical ConstantsLater Observations; References; 9 Gravity, General Relativity and Cosmology; A Few Elements from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity; Relativity Principle; The Coil and the Magnet; The Equivalence Principle; Gravitational Mass and Inertial Mass; Ehrenfest Paradox and Curved Space; Bending of Light Rays; The Einstein Equations; The General Theory of Relativity Conquers Leiden; De Sitter Meets Einstein-First Controversy: The Distant Masses; The England Connection; 'Space, Time and Gravitation'
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 520.92; Physics; Astronomers -- Netherlands -- Biography; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Science -- Physics; History of science; Physics; Science -- Cosmology; Relativity physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319983370; 3319983377
• Related ISBNs: 9783319983363
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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