论文标题
相对论历史上的本地与全球：比利时的案例
The Local versus the Global in the History of Relativity: The Case of Belgium
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论文摘要
本文通过探讨了爱因斯坦的理论如何在比利时占据了相对论的全球相对论历史。这听起来很矛盾，但是由于其全球条件的文化多样性和反射性（主要例子是第一次世界大战），十二世纪初的比利时背景被证明非常适合揭示全球相对论中全球历史上的跨国流动和模式。比利时物理学家théophilede donder在1910年代和1920年代为相对性物理做出贡献，这说明了战争在塑造相对性传播的跨国网络中的作用。保守的比利时天主教科学家和哲学家的当地态度，他们否认相对性在哲学上是重要的，体现了一种全球模式：虽然相对论的批评家害怕被爱因斯坦及其理论所代表的，以代表这些兴趣的科学，政治和文化革命而变得边缘化，以此为代表。
This article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein's theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound as a contradiction in terms, yet the early-twentieth-century Belgian context, because of its cultural diversity and reflectiveness of global conditions (the principal example being the First World War), proves well-suited to expose transnational flows and patterns in the global history of relativity. The attempts of Belgian physicist Théophile de Donder to contribute to relativity physics during the 1910s and 1920s illustrate the role of the war in shaping the transnational networks through which relativity circulated. The local attitudes of conservative Belgian Catholic scientists and philosophers, who denied that relativity was philosophically significant, exemplify a global pattern: while critics of relativity feared to become marginalized by the scientific, political, and cultural revolutions that Einstein and his theory were taken to represent, supporters sympathized with these revolutions.
