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———. 1999.
Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology
. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Janssen, Michel. 1998. “Rotation as the Nemesis of Einstein’s Entwurf Theory.” In Goenner et al. 1999.

———. 2002. “The Einstein-Besso Manuscript: A Glimpse behind the Curtain of the Wizard.” Available at www.tc.umn.edu/~janss011/.

———. 2004. “Einstein’s First Systematic Exposition of General Relativity.” Available at philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002123/01/annalen.pdf.

———. 2005. “Of Pots and Holes: Einstein’s Bumpy Road to General Relativity.”
Annalen der Physik
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———. 2006. “What Did Einstein Know and When Did He Know It? A Besso Memo Dated August 1913.” Available at www.tc.umn.edu/~janss011/.

Janssen, Michel, and Jürgen Renn. 2004. “Untying the Knot: How Einstein Found His Way Back to Field Equations Discarded in the Zurich Notebook.” Available at www.tc.umn.edu/~janss011/pdf%20files/knot.pdf.

Jerome, Fred. 2002.
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
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Jerome, Fred, and Rodger Taylor. 2005.
Einstein on Race and Racism
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Kaku, Michio. 2004.
Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
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Kessler, Harry. 1999.
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———. 1970b. “The First Phase of the Bohr-Einstein Dialogue.”
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Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man
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Mermin, N. David. 2005.
It’s about Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity
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Michelmore, Peter. 1962.
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———. 1984.
Imagery in Scientific Thought
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———. 1992. “Albert Einstein’s 1907 Jahrbuch Paper: The First Step from SRT to GRT.” In Eisenstaedt and Kox 1992, 319–335.

———. 1999.
Insights of Genius
. New York: Springer-Verlag.

———. 2001.
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
. New York: Basic Books.

———. 2005.
Empire of the Stars
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Gravitation
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Einstein on Peace
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Einstein: Eine Biographie.
Hamburg: Rowohlt.

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———. 1985. “What Was Einstein’s Principle of Equivalence?”
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———. 1991. “Thought Experiments in Einstein’s Work.” In Tamara Horowitz and Gerald Massey, eds.,
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———. 1993. “General Covariance and the Foundations of General Relativity: Eight Decades of Dispute.”
Reports on Progress in Physics
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———. 1995a.“Eliminative Induction as a Method of Discovery: Einstein’s Discovery of General Relativity.” In Jarrett Leplin, ed.,
The Creation of Ideas in Physics: Studies for a Methodology of Theory Construction
. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 29–69.

———. 1995b. “Did Einstein Stumble? The Debate over General Covariance.”
Erkenntnis
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———. 1995c. “Mach’s Principle before Einstein.” Available at www.pitt.edu/~ jdnorton/papers/MachPrinciple.pdf.

———. 2000. “Nature Is the Realization of the Simplest Conceivable Mathematical Ideas: Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity.”
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
31: 135–170.

———. 2002. “Einstein’s Triumph Over the Spacetime Coordinate System.”
Dial-ogos
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———. 2004. “Einstein’s Investigations of Galilean Covariant Electrodynamics prior to 1905.”
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
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———. 2005a. “How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity.” Available at www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton.

———. 2005b. “A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality of Spacetime Coordinate Systems and the Disaster of 1913.” In Kox and Eisenstaedt 2005.

———. 2006a. “Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the

Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies That Led Him to It.” Available at www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/homepage/cv.html.

———. 2006b. “What Was Einstein’s ‘Fateful Prejudice’?” In Jürgen Renn,
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, vol. 2. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

———. 2006c. “Atoms, Entropy, Quanta: Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905.” Available at www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton.

Overbye, Dennis. 2000.
Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance
. New York: Viking. Pais, Abraham. 1982.
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
. New York: Oxford University Press.

———. 1991.
Niels Bohr’s Times in Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

———. 1994.
Einstein Lived Here: Essays for the Layman
. New York: Oxford University Press.

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The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes
. New York: Viking.

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, Milan. 2003.
In Albert’s Shadow: The Life and Letters of Mileva Mari
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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God in the Equation
. New York: Free Press.

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The Young Einstein
. Boston: Adam Hilger.

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Who Got Einstein’s Office?
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Reiser, Anton. 1930.
Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait
. New York: Boni. (Reiser was the pseudonym of Rudoph Kayser, who married Ilse Einstein, the daughter of Einstein’s second wife Elsa.)

Renn, Jürgen. 1994. “The Third Way to General Relativity.” Max Planck Institute, www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P9.pdf.

———. 2005a. “Einstein’s Controversy with Drude and the Origin of Statistical Mechanics.” In Howard and Stachel 2000.

———. 2005b. “Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf.” In Kox and Eisenstaedt 2005.

———. 2005c. “Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy.” In Kox and Eisenstaedt 2005.

———. 2005d.
Albert Einstein: Chief Engineer of the Universe. One Hundred Authors for Einstein
. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley.

———. 2006.
Albert Einstein: Chief Engineer of the Universe. Einstein’s Life and Work in Context and Documents of a Life’s Pathway
. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley.

Renn, Jürgen, and Tilman Sauer. 1997. “The Rediscovery of General Relativity in Berlin.” Max Planck Institute, www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/forschung/Preprints/P63.pdf.

———. 2003. “Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein’s Zurich Notebook.” In Holmes et al. 2003, 253–268.

———. 2006. “Pathways out of Classical Physics: Einstein’s Double Strategy in Searching for the Gravitational Field Equation.” Available at www.hss.caltech.edu/~tilman/.

Renn, Jürgen, and Robert Schulmann, eds. 1992.
Albert Einstein and Mileva Mari
: The Love Letters
. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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