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On 20 March 1916, Albert Einstein’s paper on ‘The foundations of the theory of general relativity’ arrived at the Annalen der Physik. 165 A long paper of more than fifty printed pages, it established the theory of gravitation within the framework of general relativity, and gave a complete account of the fundamental principles and the most important consequences.

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© 1974 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Mehra, J. (1974). Completion of the Theory of Gravitation. In: Einstein, Hilbert, and The Theory of Gravitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2194-4_4

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