I've always been amaZed by the collaboration and synthesis of ideas that happened during Einstein's time. Consider how important and contributive the following

I've always been amaZed by the collaboration and synthesis of ideas that happened during Einstein's time. Consider how important and contributive the following were to the famous relativity theories and the other names involved - - Mach's principle - Michelson - Morley experiment - Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism - minkowsky space-time - Lorentz transformations - Riemann's geometry - Ricci curvature tensor - Christoffel's connection symbols - Newton's observation and attempt to account for the perihelion precession of mercury's orbit (not to mention his motion and gravity laws in the first place) - Schwarzschild's solution to the field equations - Kerr metric and solutions - .. and amongst all that we have the Einstein field equations