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As we have seen, the cosmological theorizing at the beginning of the 20th century involved a discussion of Newtonian cosmology, and the concepts of ether and action at a distance. Einsteinian Special Relativity (1905), which provided a satisfactory reply to both questions, was, however, limited to uniform motions, and to linear motions of systems of reference with respect to one another.
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Kaufman, S., Pecker, JC. (2001). Cosmologies of Today and Tomorrow. In: Kaufman, S. (eds) Understanding the Heavens. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04441-4_9
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