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History
Excerpts from Chapter Seven
Historians
all too often look to the conclusions of previous historians, rather
than to the complete historic record, itself.280 Historians record their
impressions and not history itself. They are politically motivated.
Later historians all too often record the works of earlier historians,
and the truth is lost in the process.
Bias
is a double-edged sword, which cuts both ways. Many who are aware that
Einstein was not an original thinker wrongfully attribute the special
theory of relativity to Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, often believing that
Minkowski first set in cement the notion of the uniform translation
of space and the concept of four-dimensional being. Many worship Hendrik
Antoon as a hero, just as many worship Einstein as a hero. However,
Lorentz and Minkowski deserve little more credit than does Albert Einstein.
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General Theory of Relativity, Paul Gerber, David Hilbert,
Albert Einstein:
F.
Winterberg, The Einstein Myth and the Crisis in Modern
Physics.
I.
McCausland, "Anomalies in the History of Relativity", Journal of
Scientific Exploration, Volume 13, Number 2, (1999), pp.
271-290.
The following journal articles discredit Leo
Corry, Juergen Renn and John Stachel's baseless and radical
historical revisionism:
Prof.
Friedwardt Winterberg's paper discrediting Corry, Renn and Stachel's
revisionism: "On 'Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority
Dispute', published by L. Corry, J. Renn, and J. Stachel",
Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung A, Volume 59a, Number 10,
(October, 2004), pp. 715-719.
Abstract for
Prof. Friedwardt Winterberg's paper discrediting Corry, Renn and
Stachel's revisionism.
Table of Contents for
Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung A, Volume 59a.
A. A.
Logunov, M. A. Mestvirishvili and V. A. Petrov, "How Were the
Hilbert-Einstein Equations Discovered?" Uspekhi Fizicheskikh
Nauk, Volume 174, Number 6, (June, 2004), pp. 663-678.
An
English translation of A. A.
Logunov, M. A. Mestvirishvili and V. A. Petrov, "How Were the
Hilbert-Einstein Equations Discovered?" Uspekhi Fizicheskikh
Nauk, Volume 174, Number 6, (June, 2004), pp. 663-678.
An alternative
English translation was published in the Physics-Uspekhi: A. A.
Logunov, M. A. Mestvirishvili and V. A. Petrov, "How Were the
Hilbert-Einstein Equations Discovered?" Physics-Uspekhi, Volume 47, Number 6, (June, 2004), pp. 607-621.
T.
Sauer, "The Relativity of Discovery: Hilbert's First Note on the
Foundations of Physics", Archive for History of Exact
Sciences, Volume 53, Number 6, (1999), pp. 529-575.
Leo Corry, Jürgen Renn and John Stachel's 1997
article in Science, which does not mention the mutilation of
Hilbert's proofs:
"Belated
Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute", Science,
Volume 278, (14 November 1997), pp. 1270-1273.
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