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This book, originally published in 1922, consisted of the text of Dr. Einstein's Stafford Little Lectures, delivered in May 1921 at Princeton University For the third edition, Dr. Einstein added an appendix discussing certain advances in the theory of relativity since 1921. To the fourth edition, Dr. Einstein added Appendix II on his Generalized Theory of Gravitation. In the fifth edition the proof in Appendix II was revised.In the present (sixth) edition Appendix II has been rewritten. This edition and the Princeton University Press fifth edition, revised (1955), are identical.
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The Meaning of Relat ivity ‘He was unfathomably profound – the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.’ Time ‘Einstein’s little book serves as an excellent tying together of loose ends and as a broad survey of the subject.’ Physics Today
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Albert
Einstein The Meaning of Relativity
Translated by Edwin Plimpton Adams, with Appendix I translated by Ernst G. Straus and Appendix II by Sonja Bargmann
London and New York
Vier Vorlesungen ueber Relativitaetstheorie first published 1922 by Vieweg English edition first published in United Kingdom 1922 by Methuen Second edition published 1937 Third edition with an appendix published 1946 Fourth edition with further appendix published 1950 Fifth edition published 1951 Sixth revised edition published 1956 all by Methuen First published in Routledge Classics 2003 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. © 1922, 2003 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanic