The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: General Relativity:

• Mac Tutor [St. Andrew's University]
• Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity (resources for an introductory solar system astronomy class) [University of Tennessee, Knoxville]
• Einstein and General Relativity, 2005/05 This Month in Physics History [APS]
• A Brief History of General Relativity, by Stephen Hawking, 1999/12/27 Time Magazine [CNN]
• General Relativity [J. Rank]
• Wikipedia (few external links)
• Who Invented Relativity? [Math Pages]
• How did Einstein Discover Relativity?, by John Stachel, 1983ish from Einstein from "B" to "Z" [The History Center, AIP]
• Einstein, Nordström, and the Early Demise of Scalar, Lorentz Covariant Theories of Gravitation, by J. D. Norton, 2005 from The Genesis of General Relativity, ed. Jürgen Renn (PDF) [University of Pittsburgh]
• Of Pots and Holes: Einstein's Bumpy Road to General Relativity, by Michael Jansenn, 2005 Annalen der Physick [University of Minnesota]
• A Note on Relativity before Einstein, by M. N. Macrossan, 1984 (PDF) [University of Queensland]
• Henri Poincar&eactue; and Relativity Theory by A. A. Logunov [2005/07]
• Brief Outline (aimed at children but interesting) [Nobel Prize.org]

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