On the reduction of general relativity to Newtonian gravitation

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.04.005zbMath1425.83006OpenAlexW2947605678MaRDI QIDQ2008983

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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