TOPICS

Einstein-Levi Civita correspondence

Palatini variational principle

Invariance and covariance debate

Marcolongo correspondence

JOURNALS

C. Cattani, “La Physique de la Relativité en Belgique au début du XXe siècle”, Album

Belgique (2010). (in French)

C.Cattani, “I primi anni della relativitàin Italia e la corrispondenza Einstein- Levi Civita”, Quaderni

di Storia della Fisica, 3, 25-51, (1998). (in Italian)

http://www.sif.it/SIF/en/portal/journals/qsf/econtents

C.Cattani, “Marcolongo e la volgarizzazione della relatività (1906-1924)”, Rivista di Storia delle

Scienze, (S. II),? 4, (2), 99–144, (1996). (in Italian)

C.Cattani, “Levi-Civita e la sua scuola di relatività”, in Cento anni di Matematica 1895-1995,

Fratelli Palombi editori, 213–229 (1996). (in Italian)

C.Cattani, and M.De Maria, “Genialità e rigore: la corrispondenza Einstein- Levi Civita (1915

1917)”, Rivista di Storia della Scienza, (S. II), 4, 1–22, (1996). (in Italian)

C.Cattani, and E. Laserra, “The Italian controversy on the composition of rigid motions”, Rivista d

Storia della Scienza, 2(serie II):1–14, Giugno (1994).

C.Cattani, and M.De Maria, “Conservation Laws and Gravitational waves in General Relativity

(1915-1918)”,The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History ofGeneral Relativity,

M.Jansen J.Earman and J.D.Norton, editors, Birkhauser, Boston,Basel,Berlin, volume 5, 63–87,

(1993).

http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/physics/book/978-0-8176-3624-1

C.Cattani, “Levi-Civita’s Influence on Palatini’s Contribution to General Relativity”, The Attraction

of Gravitation:

New Studies in the History of General Relativity, M.Jansen J.Earman and J.D.Norton, editors,

Birkhauser, Boston,Basel,Berlin, volume 5, 206–222, (1993).

http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/physics/book/978-0-8176-3624-1

C.Cattani, and M. De Maria. “The 1915 epistolary controversy between A.Einstein and

T.LeviCivita”, Einstein and the history of general relativity, D.Howard and J.Stachel,

editors, Birkhauser, N.Y., volume 1, 175–200, (1989).

http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/physics/book/978-0-8176-3392-9

C.Cattani, and M. De Maria. “Max Abraham and the reception of relativity in Italy: his 1912 and

1914 controversies with Einstein”, Einstein and the history of general relativity,

D.Howard and J.Stachel, editors,Birkhauser, N.Y.,volume 1, 160–175, (1989).

http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/physics/book/978-0-8176-3392-9  

PROCEEDINGS

C.Cattani, “Early debates on General Relativity in Italy” Invited Lecture, Proceedings of the Xth

Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Bardonecchia 1992,

M.Francaviglia M.Cerdonio, R.D’Auria and G.Magnano, editors, World Scientific, Singapore,

(1994), 93–110.

C.Cattani, ?and M. De Maria. “Gravitational waves and conservation laws in general relativity: A.Einstein and

T.Levi-Civita, 1917 correspondence”, Proceedings of the 5th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity},

Perth, Australia, 1987, D.G.Blair and M.J.Buckingham, editors, World Scientific, Singapore, (1989), 1335–1342.

C.Cattani, and M.De Maria. “Einstein’s path toward the generally covariant formulation of gravitational field

equations:the contribution of Tullio Levi-Civita”, Proceedings of the 4th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on

General Relativity}, Rome 1985, R.Ruffini, editor, Elsevier Science, North-Holland, (1986), 1805–1826.