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On February 4, 1917 Albert Einstein writes to Paul Ehrenfest (Kerszberg 1989, p155): “I have... again perpetrated something about gravitation theory which somewhat exposes me to the danger of being confined to a madhouse.” Four days later he revealed these maddening thoughts in the physico-mathematical division of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Sciences to his fellow academicians. A week later the Reichsdruckerei issued the Sitzungsbericht “Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” (Einstein 1917). Thus began modem cosmology.
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Schucking, E.L. (1991). The Introduction of the Cosmological Constant. In: Zichichi, A., de Sabbata, V., Sánchez, N. (eds) Gravitation and Modern Cosmology. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0620-5_17
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