TITLE: Relativity
SUBTITLE: The Special and General Theory
AUTHOR: Albert Einstein
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company
PLACE: New York
YEAR: 1920
EDITION: First American Edition
NO.OF PAGES: xiii, [1], 168 pages
BINDING: Dark navy ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on front board, green on the spine without the dustjacket
SIZE:
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Depth: 2 cm

A NICE COPY OF THE GROUNDBREAKING FIRST US APPEARANCE OF EINSTEIN'S THEORIES FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE

First American Edition. Differs from the UK edition in page arrangement. Translated by Robert W. Lawson With frontispiece, Translator's Note, three appendices, Bibliography, and Index. Text divided into three parts titled as: The Special Theory of Relativity; The General Theory of Relativity; and Considerations on the Universe as a Whole. There are three appendices, a bibliography, and an index.

In this work, Einstein explains the fundamentals of his theory that interrelated special relativity and general relativity. The book was published at the height of the productivity and fame of this noted scientist, about a year before he was awarded the Nobel Prize and two years after Einstein's prediction regarding general relativity was confirmed. He predicted that a ray of light passing a mass would be bent towards the mass. This prediction was confirmed by a royal London delegation headed by British Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington who watched and photographed a solar eclipse. This book was printed a year earlier in London. This is the first edition that was printed in America.

Einstein was one of the greatest physicists of all time and one of the most prominent theoreticians, along with Isaac Newton. The theories of relativity that he developed and explained in this book changed everything that had been previously known about time, space, mass, movement and gravity. His contribution to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and the photoelectric effect earned him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921.

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