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"The present book is intended," Einstein wrote in 1916, "as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.... In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler." But it is elegant, in part because of the 1920 translation, by Robert W. Lawson, a British physicist who had polished his German while a prisoner of war in Austria. The introduction, by science writer Nigel Calder, guides the reader through the work section by section, even giving advice on which sections to skip, or at least not to worry about, if you can't "accompany Einstein through the forest of tricky ideas contained in this slim volume." Okay, this book isn't easy--again, in the master's elegant words, it "lays no small claims on the patience and on the power of abstraction of the reader"--but it is well worth the try.

P R E FACE

PART Ⅰ The Special Theory of Relativity

　1 Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions

　2 The System of Co-ordinates

　3 Space and Time in ClassicaI MechaniCS

　4 The Galileian System of Co-ordinates

　5 The Principle of Relativity(in the Restricted Sense)

　6 The Theorem ofthe Addition ofVelocities Employed in ClassicaI MechaniCS

　7 The Apparent Incompatibility ofthe Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity

　8 On the Idea ofTime in PhysiCS

　9 The Relativity of Si multaneity

　10 On the Relativity ofthe Conception of Distance

　11 The Lorentz Transformation

　12 The Behaviour of Measu ring-Rods and Clocks in Motion

　13 Theorem ofthe Addition ofVelocities.The Experiment of Fizeau

　14 The Heu ristic Value of the Theory of Relativity

　15 General Results of the Theory

　16 Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity

　17 Minkowski’S Four-dimensional Space

PART Ⅱ The GeneraI Theory of Relativity

　18 Special and General Principie of Relativity

　19 The G ravitational Field

　20 The EquaIity of Inertial and G ravitational Mass as an Argument for the General PostuIate of Relativity

　21 In what Respects are the Foundations of Classical MechaniCS and of the SpeciaI Theo ry of Relativity U nsatisCactory？

　22 A Few Inferences from the GeneraI Principie of Relativity

　23 Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring．Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference

　24 EucIidean and non．EucIidean Continuum

　25 Gaussian Co-ordinates

　26 The Space．Time Continuum of the Special Theory of Relativity Considered as a Eucl．dean Continuum

　27 The Space．Time Continuum oFthe GeneraI Theory of Relativity iS not a Euclidean Continuum

　28 Exact Formulation of the GeneraI Principle of Relativity

PART Ⅲ Considerations on the U niverse as a Whole

APPEN DICES

BIBLIOG RAPHY

INDEX

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