| Table of Contents | 6 |
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| Volume 1 | 8 |
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| PREFACE | 8 |
| INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2: THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK AND THE GENESIS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY | 14 |
| REFERENCES | 24 |
| CLASSICAL PHYSICS IN DISARRAY | 28 |
| 1. INTRODUCTION | 28 |
| 2. GRAVITATION AMONG THE BORDERLINE PROBLEMS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS | 37 |
| 3. THE ROOTS OF EINSTEIN’S HEURISTICS IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CLASSICAL AND SPECIAL RELATIVISTIC PHYSICS | 66 |
| REFERENCES | 83 |
| THE FIRST TWO ACTS | 88 |
| REFERENCES | 116 |
| PATHWAYS O UT OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS | 123 |
| 1. INTRODUCTION | 123 |
| 2. THE MENTAL MODEL OF FIELD THEORY | 135 |
| 3. THE ELEMENTS OF EINSTEIN’S HEURISTICS | 149 |
| 4. DEFAULT SETTINGS AND OPEN SLOTS IN THE LORENTZ MODEL FOR A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATION IN 1912 | 160 |
| 5. TESTING THE CANDIDATES: EINSTEIN’S CHECK LIST FOR GRAVITATION TENSORS | 183 |
| 6. CHANGING HORSES: EINSTEIN’S CHOICE OF GRAVITATION TENSORS FROM 1912–1913 | 201 |
| 7. PROGRESS IN A LOOP: EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A TRIUMPH OF THE “ENTWURF” THEORY IN THE PERIOD FROM 1913 TO 1915 | 232 |
| 8. THE TRANSITION FROM CLASSICAL PHYSICS TO GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION | 298 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 313 |
| REFERENCES | 313 |
| EINSTEIN’S ZURICH NOTEBOOK | 319 |
| Volume 2 | 494 |
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| A COMMENTARY ON THE NOTES ON GRAVITY IN THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK | 494 |
| WHAT WAS EINSTEIN’S “FATEFUL PREJUDICE”? | 720 |
| WHAT DID EINSTEIN KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT? A BESSO MEMO DATED AUGUST 1913 | 789 |
| UNTYING THE KNOT: HOW EINSTEIN FOUND HIS WAY BACK TO FIELD EQUATIONS DISCARDED IN THE ZURICH NOTEBOOK | 842 |
| Index | 929 |
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