Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998fophl..11...41m&link_type=abstract
Foundations of Physics Letters, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp.41-60
Physics
General Relativity, Gravitation, Field Equations, Mercury Perihelion, Einstein
Scientific paper
Albert Einstein had initiated his work on the formulation of a general theory of relativity soon after completing the special theory. From 1907 to summer 1915 he worked hard on the problem of ‘generalizing’ the relativity theory. His efforts bore fruit during November 1915, and he presented the new theory in four communications to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in that month; he obtained the correct expression and value for the advance of the perihelion motion of Mercury and motivated the existence of the final form of the field equations of gravitation. After his second communication to the Academy on 11 November, he had the expression and value for the advance of the perihelion of Mercury by 18 November, and the final form of the field equations by 25 November. He noted down both of these major results in an autograph manuscript, the English translation of which is presented here for the first time since Einstein wrote it, and the background of this fundamental work is discussed.
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