1. A. Einstein, Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper, Annalen der Physik 17 (1905), 891.
2. See
http://www.einstein.caltech.edu
for an entry into the Einstein Collected Papers Project. The French reader will have access to Einstein’s main papers in Albert Einstein, (Euvres choisies, Paris, Le Seuil/CNRS, 1993, under the direction of F. Balibar. See in particular Volumes 2 (Relativités I) and 3 (Relativités II). One can also consult the 2005 Poincaré seminar dedicated to Einstein (rs http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/poincare URL ): Einstein, 1905-2005, Poincaré Sem- (Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Suisse, 2006). See also the excellent summary article by D. Giulini and N. Straumann, “Einstein’s impact on the physics of the twentieth century,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37 (2006), 115-173. For online access to many of Einstein’s original articles and to documents about him, particular the archive gr-qc. Review articles on certain sub-fields of general relativUpon Einstein, A K Peters Ltd, Wellesley, 2006, for a recent non-technical account of the formation of Einstein’s ideas.
3. GALILEO, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso di Salvio, Macmillan, New York, 1914.
4. The reader inteested in learning about recent experimental tests or gravitational theories may consult, on the internet, either the highly detailed review by C.M. Will in Living Reviews (
http://www.relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-4
) or the brief review by T. Damour in the Review of Particle Physics (http://www.pdg.lbl.gov/). See also John Mester’s contribution to this Poincaré seminar.
5. A. Einstein, Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation, Sitz, Preuss. Ákad. Wiss., 1915, p. 844.