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THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT FROM NEWTON TO EINSTEIN
PREFACE
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PART IPRE-RELATIVITY PHYSICS
CHAPTER IITHE BIRTH OF METRICAL GEOMETRY
CHAPTER IIIRIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES AND CONGRUENCE
CHAPTER IVTHE PROBLEM OF PHYSICAL SPACE
CHAPTER VAN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF THE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES
CHAPTER VITIME
CHAPTER VIISYSTEMS OF CO-ORDINATES AND DISTANCE
CHAPTER VIIITHE MEANING OF THE WORD RELATIVITY
CHAPTER IXTHE PRINCIPLES OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XCLASSICAL MECHANICS AND THE NEWTONIAN PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XITHE ETHER
CHAPTER XIITHE EQUATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETICS AND LORENTZ’S THEORY
PART IITHE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XIVRELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
CHAPTER XVCONSEQUENCES OF THE NEW SPACE AND TIME MEASUREMENTS—SIMULTANEITY
Chapter 21
CHAPTER XVIPRACTICAL CONGRUENCE IN RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XVIITHE MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION OF EINSTEIN’S FUNDAMENTAL PREMISES
CHAPTER XVIIITHE DISCOVERY OF SPACE-TIME
CHAPTER XIXVARIOUS POSSIBLE WORLDS
CHAPTER XXTHE IRREVERSIBILITY OF TIME
CHAPTER XXITHE REALITY OF THE CONTRACTION OF LENGTHS AND OF THE LENGTHENING OF DURATIONS
CHAPTER XXIIAND THE TRIP TO THE STAR
Chapter 29
PART IIITHE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XXIVTHE POSTULATE OF EQUIVALENCE
CHAPTER XXVTHE INCLUSION OF GRAVITATION IN THE MODEL OF SPACE-TIME
CHAPTER XXVITENSORS AND THE LAWS OF NATURE
CHAPTER XXVIITHE PRINCIPLE OF GENERAL COVARIANCE, OR THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XXVIIITHE DISCOVERY OF THE EINSTEINIAN LAW OF GRAVITATION
CHAPTER XXIXTHE GENERAL LAWS OF MOTION
CHAPTER XXXTHE VERIFICATION OF EINSTEIN’S LAW
CHAPTER XXXITHE SEPARATION OF SPACE-TIME INTO SPACE AND TIME IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
CHAPTER XXXIITHE PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION
CHAPTER XXXIIIOTHER ASPECTS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL EQUATIONS
CHAPTER XXXIVTHE FINITENESS OF THE UNIVERSE
Chapter 42
CHAPTER XXXVTHE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE-TIME, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION
CHAPTER XXXVITHE MYSTERY OF MATTER
CHAPTER XXXVIITHE THEORIES OF WEYL AND EDDINGTON
PART IVTHE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
CHAPTER XXXIXTHE CO-ORDINATION OF PHYSICAL FACTS ACCOMPLISHED BY RELATIVITY
CHAPTER XLTHE GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Chapter 53
APPENDICES
APPENDIX IITHE CURVATURES OF SPACE-TIME
APPENDIX IIITHE GRAVITATIONAL EQUATIONS
APPENDIX IVSPACE, GRAVITATION AND SPACE-TIME
FOOTNOTES:
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
Chapter 63
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