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Item Open Access Item Open Access Christopher Ray, The evolution of relativity : Bristol ..., Adam Hilger, 1987; [Rezension](1988) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Item Open Access Einstein's attitude towards experiments : testing relativity theory 1907 - 1927(1992) Hentschel, KlausContrary to the widespread Einstein legend, it is demonstrated that in many cases he was extremely curious about certain experimental results and that he could hardly wait for the moment when tests which he had suggested were actually done by skilled observers. I will show that this was the case whenever these empirically testable effects were closely linked to his newly proposed fundamental principles which still lacked empirical support, focussing on the examples of gravitational redshift (linked to the equivalence principle between gravitational and acceleration fields), of light deflection (linked to mass-energy equivalency and the curvature of space-time), and of interferometric experiments (linked to the two axioms of the special theory of relativity).Item Open Access Item Open Access Erwin Finlay Freundlich and testing Einstein's theory of relativity(1994) Hentschel, KlausThis article covers aspects of the life and career of ERWIN FINLAY FREUNDLICH, the first German astronomer to consider seriously Einstein's theory of relativity and gravitation. In doing so, he made himself so unpopular among his colleagues that nothing less than Einstein's powerful intercession was necessary for him to be able to continue his research on the experimental verification of this theory.Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Pesi Rustom Masani, Norbert Wiener, 1894 - 1964 : Basel ..., Birkhäuser, 1990; [Rezension](1991) Hentschel, Klaus-Item Open Access Die Korrespondenz Einstein - Schlick : zum Verhältnis der Physik zur Philosophie(1986) Hentschel, KlausEs wird die wechselseitige Beeinflussung Einsteins und Schlicks anhand ihrer ab 1915 erhaltenen Korrespondenz in vier Schwerpunkten untersucht. Schlicks Selbstverständnis als Philosoph wie auch einzelne Themata seines Denkens (wie etwa das der Einfachheit) bildeten sich mit seiner Auseinandersetzung um die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins heraus, deren systematische Explikation durch Schlick auf Einsteins Beifall stieß. Als die Ursache für das Auseinanderdriften beider Denker nach 1925 werden fundamentale Differenzen im Wirklichkeitsverständnis und in der Interpretation des Kausalitätsprinzips aufgewiesen, die beide auch zu komplementären Formen der Wissenschaftsgeschichtsbetrachtung führten.