Renn J. (ed.) The Genesis of General Relativity: Sources and Interpretations. Vol. 1 and 2

Springer, 2007. — 938 p.This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It contains the direct facsimile, transcript and explanation of and comments on the Einstein Zurich Notebook as written in 1912. The research by Einstein herein forms a pivotal part of his creation of the theory of General Relativity (1915) from Special Relativity (1905) and Newton's law of gravitation. Additional sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development sources are presented here in translation for the first time. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.Preface (by Jurgen Renn).
Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2: The Zurich Notebook and the Genesis of General Relativity (by Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, Jurgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, and John Stachel).
Classical Physics in Disarray: The Emergence of the Riddle of Gravitation (by Jurgen Renn).
The First Two Acts (by John Stachel).
Pathways Out of Classical Physics: Einstein's Double Strategy in his Search for the Gravitational Field Equation (by Jurgen Renn and Tilman Sauer).
Einstein's Zurich Notebook: Transcription and Facsimile.
A Commentary on the Notes on Gravity in the Zurich Notebook (by Michel Janssen, Jurgen Renn, Tilman Sauer, John D. Norton, and John Stachel).
What Was Einstein's "Fateful Prejudice"? (by John D. Norton).
What Did Einstein Know and When Did He Know It? A Besso Memo Dated August 1913 (by Michel Janssen).
Untying the Knot: How Einstein Found His Way Back to Field Equations Discarded in the Zurich Notebook (by Michel Janssen and Jurgen Renn).