EINSTEIN, Albert, & Ernst G. Straus.

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The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields Surrounding the Individual Stars; First editions, offprint issues, of the papers that introduced the Swiss-cheese model of the universe. Einstein and Straus revised the FLRW metric by suggesting that the universe is in fact inhomogeneous. "In two ground-breaking papers, Einstein and Straus showed how galaxies fit into a Universe with zero pressure... This model helps to describe the universe observed today" (Harwit, p. 573).

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