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A POPULAR exposition of the doctrine of Relativity and what it implies: for this the world has been crying since the astronomers announced that the stars had proved it true. Here is an excellent translation of Einstein's own book; we hasten to it to know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The reviewer on this occasion should be the man in the street, the man who, with thousands, has been asking, “What is Relativity?” “What is the matter with Euclid and with Newton?” “What is this message from the stars?” Whether it is possible for the prophet to make his message clear to the multitude, only history can prove. He must needs speak largely in parables, in incomplete similes; and he is subject, therefore, to inevitable misunderstanding.
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. A Popular Exposition.
By Prof. Albert Einstein. Authorised translation by Dr. Robert W. Lawson. Pp. xiii + 138. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 5s. net.
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory A Popular Exposition . Nature 106, 336–337 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106336a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106336a0
