On the reduction of general relativity to Newtonian gravitation

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2019.04.005MaRDI QIDQ2008983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Craig Fletcher

Publication date 26 November 2019

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17236/1/reduction_shpmp.pdf

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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