Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory

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Overview

This volume contains new publications of A. S. Eddington's famous book Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory, written for a wider audience, and two short pieces originally published in Nature - an article on time (The Relativity of Time) and a Letter to the Editor on space ("Space" or "Aether"?). The short Nature publications are included in the volume because they shed additional (and still important today) light on some aspects of the (then) new views of space, time and gravitation. In 1921 in a review in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society Edwin Bidwell Wilson wrote that Eddington's book "is undoubtedly the best general presentation" of general relativity. Today it is still one of the best general presentations because it is written not only by a skilled popularizer of science but also by one of the three (as the legend has it) experts on general relativity at that time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781927763308
Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
Publication date: 08/24/2017
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

Table of Contents

Eclipse instruments at Sobral; Foreword; Preface; What is geometry?; 1. The FitzGerald contraction; 2. Relativity; 3. The world of four dimensions; 4. Fields of force; 5. Kinds of space; 6. The new law of gravitation and the old law; 7. Weighing light; 8. Other tests of the theory; 9. Momentum and energy; 10. Towards infinity; 11. Electricity and gravitation; 12. On the nature of things; Mathematical notes; Historical note.

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