| Автор | MOTA, ELSA |
| Автор | CRAWFORD, PAULO |
| Автор | SIMÕES, ANA |
| Дата выпуска | 2009 |
| dc.description | AbstractAmong various case studies addressing the reception of relativity, very few deal with Portugal at either the international or the national level. The national literature on the topic has mainly concentrated on the reactions to relativity of the Portuguese mathematical community. The absence of Portuguese astronomers alongside Eddington during the 1919 expedition to Principe, then a Portuguese island, has been implicitly equated with the astronomical community's lack of interest in the event. In reception studies dealing with general relativity, analysis has tended to focus on the physics and mathematics communities, less on the astronomers. Given that relativity was born at the interface of physics, mathematics and astronomy, reactions of members of these scientific communities depended on differences in shared traditions, values, problems and expectations, as well as on individual practitioners' idiosyncrasies. This paper addresses the contributions of the overlooked Portuguese astronomical community, evaluates the actions and reactions of its members to the expedition and assesses their role in the process of appropriation of relativity. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Копирайт | Copyright © 2008 British Society for the History of Science |
| Название | Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25) |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0007087408001568 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1474-001X |
| Print ISSN | 0007-0874 |
| Журнал | The British Journal for the History of Science |
| Том | 42 |
| Первая страница | 245 |
| Последняя страница | 273 |
| Аффилиация | MOTA ELSA; Centro de História das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Аффилиация | CRAWFORD PAULO; Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Аффилиация | SIMÕES ANA; Universidade de Lisboa |
| Выпуск | 2 |
