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A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part II)

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I am grateful to Michel Janssen, Erhard Scholz, and Scott Walter for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. This being a snapshot of a complex story, I have tried to tell part of it here without taking in other contemporaneous developments that would require serious attention in a more comprehensive study. Historical and mathematical details connected with the Einstein–de Sitter debates and other related matters can be found in several of the references cited below.

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Rowe, D.E. A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part II). Math Intelligencer 38, 52–60 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9650-5

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