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Durnova, Helena |
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Reception Of Relativity Theory By Physicists In The Interwar Czechoslovakia |
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A fierce debate on relativity theory opened in Czechoslovakia after the review of Einstein’s Meaning of Relativity (1923) appeared in Časopis pro pěstování matematiky a fysiky (Journal for the cultivation of mathematics and physics) in 1924. The review by Brno professor of theoretical physics Bohumil Hostinský (1884-1951) was accompanied by a disclaimer written by another renowned Czech physicist, František Záviška (1879-1945). The positions of the two physicists remained unchanged for years, but while Záviška was joined in his defense of relativity by Arnošt Dittrich (1878-1959) and František Nachtikal (1875-1939), Hostinský remained alone in his rejection. I my contribution, I will look at the debate through the lens of articles and discussions published in the philosophical journal Ruch filosofický and the membership journal of the Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists, Časopis pro pěstování matematiky a fysiky (Journal for the cultivation of mathematics and physics). |
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