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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
List of Tables xv
Preface xvii
Introduciton xxi
Notation Convention for Angular Measure xxv
Abbreviations xxvii
PART ONE: 1905-1911
Early Encounters with Relativity 1
CHAPTER ONE
Einstein and the World Community of Physicists and Astronomers 3
CHAPTER TWO
Astronomesr and Special Relativity: The First Publications 28
PART TWO: 1911-1919
Astronomers Encounter Einstein 45
CHAPTER THREE
The Early Involvement, 1911-1914 47
CHAPTER FOUR
The War Period, 1914-1918 85
CHAPTER FIVE
1919: A Year of Dramatic Announcement 125
CHAPTER SIX
Men of Science Agog 146
PART THREE: 1920-1925
Astronomers Put Einstein to the Test 169
CHAPTER SEVEN
Tackling the Solar Redshift Problem 171
CHAPTER EIGHT
More Eclipse Testing 183
CHAPTER NINE
Emergence of the Critics 213
CHAPTER TEN
The Debate Intensifies 236
PART FOUR: 1925-1930
Final Acceptance 263
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Relativity Triumphs 265
CHAPTER TWELVE
Silencing the Critics 300
EPILOGUE
The Emergence of Relativistic Cosmology 315
FINAL REFLECTIONS 321
Notes 327
Bibilography365
Index 385