408
DOC. 40 ON
KOTTLER'S PAPER
Published
in
Annalen der
Physik 51 (1916):
639-642. Dated October
1916,
received
19
Octo-
ber
1916,
published
21
December
1916.
[1]Kottler
1916b. Friedrich Kottler
(1886-1965)
was
Privatdozent
at
the
University
of
Vienna.
[2]Other
papers
by
Kottler
are
Kottler
1912,
1914a,
1914b,
and 1916a. The first
paper
was
cited
in
Einstein and Grossmann 1913
(Vol.
4,
Doc.
13)
and
in
Einstein 1913c
(Vol.
4,
Doc.
17).
It
gives
a
covariant formulation
of Maxwell's
equations,
but without
any
connection
to
a
theory
of
gravitation.
[3]See
also
Vol.
4,
the
editorial
note,
"Einstein
on
Gravitation and
Relativity:
The Static
Field,"
pp.
122-128,
for
more on
the role
of the
equivalence principle
in
Einstein's search for
a
relativistic
theory
of
gravitation,
and Norton 1985 for
a
historical discussion of the various
formulations of the
equivalence principle.
[4]The words
in quotation
marks
were
used
by
Kottler
to
summarize the essential difference
between his results and
Einstein's
theory (see
Kottler
1916b,
p.
956).
[5]See Born 1909 for
his
study
of accelerated motion with
constant
proper
acceleration.
[6]In
his
paper
Kottler
pointed out
that his results had
a
preliminary
character and that mil-
itary
service
prevented
him from further
pursuing
his research
(see
Kottler
1916b,
p.
956).
In
a
paper published
two
years
later
(Kottler 1918)
he
stated that
he
had abandoned the
approach
taken
in
Kottler 1916b because it had led
to
contradictions.
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