Lost in the tensors: Einstein's struggles with covariance principles 1912–1916☆
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Present address c/o Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn, U.S.A. and Department of Philosophy, The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, Ill. 60680, U.S.A. We are grateful to Dr. Otto Nathan, Trustee of the Einstein Estate, for permission to quote from Einstein's correspondence. We also want to thank the anonymous referee for numerous improvements in an earlier draft of this paper.