Space, Time and Gravitation

This classic book is essential reading for all those interested in the development of modern physics. Sir Arthur Eddington's account of the general theory of relativity, 'without,' as he says in his preface, 'introducing anything very technical in the way of mathematics, physics or philosophy', was first published in the exciting days of 1920 soon after the first objective tests of the theory had demonstrated its validity. The book was at once received with acclamation by reviewers and remains today one of the simplest and most straightforward accounts in print. The reviewer in the Athenaeum described it as 'a masterly book. The arrangement, the vigour and ease of the reasoning, the felicity of illustration, the clear, flexible prose and (we must mention it) the wit, make this book one of the most adequate and engaging attempts at the non-technical exposition of a scientific theory that it has ever been our good fortune to encounter.' This reissue includes a foreword by Sir Hermann Bondi, FRS, giving a brief appraisal of the book, and placing it in its historical and scientific context.

ISBN 0521337097   DEWEY edition DC19 ISBN13 9780521337090 (What's this?)   Pages 232 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 300 Format Paperback   Published in Cambridge Publication date 26 Feb 1987   Series title Cambridge Science Classics S. Non-book description xii, 218 p. :   Previous ISBN 9780521048651 Writer of foreword Bondi, Sir Hermann   Height (mm) 216 Writer of preface Eddington, Arthur Stanley   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress QC173.59.S65 E33 1987   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 530.11   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

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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