Concepts of Simultaneity - From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond : From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond

Preface ix Introduction 1(191) 1 Terminological Preliminaries 8(8) 2 The Concept of Simultaneity in Antiquity 16(31) 3 Medieval Conceptions of Simultaneity 47(12) 4 The Concept of Simultaneity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 59(9) 5 The Concept of Simultaneity in Classical Physics 68(27) 6 The Transition to the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity 95(11) 7 Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity 106(42) 8 The Reception of the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity 148(23) 9 The Conventionality Thesis 171(21) 10 The Promulgation of the Conventionality Thesis 192(9) 11 Symmetry and Transitivity of Simultaneity 201(19) 12 Arguments against the Conventionality Thesis 220(20) 13 Clock Transport Synchrony 240(11) 14 Recent Debates on the Conventionality of Simultaneity 251(20) 15 Simultaneity in General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics 271(24) Epilogue 295(6) Index 301