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    Title: Relativity: The Special and General Theory

    Author: Albert Einstein

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> ## Albert Einstein Reference Archive

> # Relativity

> ### The Special and General Theory

> Written: 1916
> Source: Relativity: The Special and General Theory © 1920
> Publisher: Methuen & Co Ltd
> First Published: December, 1916
> Translated: Robert W. Lawson (Authorised translation)
> Transcription/Markup: Brian Basgen
> Thanks to: Einstein Reference Archive (marxists.org).

> 01. Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions
> 02. The System of Co-ordinates
> 03. Space and Time in Classical Mechanics
> 04. The Galileian System of Co-ordinates
> 05. The Principle of Relativity (in the Restricted Sense)
> 06. The Theorem of the Addition of Velocities employed in Classical Mechanics
> 07. The Apparent Incompatability of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity
> 08. On the Idea of Time in Physics
> 09. The Relativity of Simultaneity
> 10. On the Relativity of the Conception of Distance
> 11. The Lorentz Transformation
> 12. The Behaviour of Measuring-Rods and Clocks in Motion
> 13. Theorem of the Addition of Velocities. The Experiment of Fizeau
> 14. The Hueristic Value of the Theory of Relativity
> 15. General Results of the Theory
> 16. Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity
> 17. Minkowski's Four-dimensial Space

> 18. Special and General Principle of Relativity
> 19. The Gravitational Field
> 20. The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity
> 21. In What Respects are the Foundations of Classical Mechanics and of the Special Theory of Relativity Unsatisfactory?
> 22. A Few Inferences from the General Principle of Relativity
> 23. Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference
> 24. Euclidean and non-Euclidean Continuum
> 25. Gaussian Co-ordinates
> 26. The Space-Time Continuum of the Speical Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum
> 27. The Space-Time Continuum of the General Theory of Realtivity is Not a Euclidean Continuum
> 28. Exact Formulation of the General Principle of Relativity
> 29. The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation on the Basis of the General Principle of Relativity

> 30. Cosmological Difficulties of Newton's Theory
> 31. The Possibility of a "Finite" and yet "Unbounded" Universe
> 32. The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity

> 01. Simple Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation (sup. ch. 11)
> 02. Minkowski's Four-Dimensional Space ("World") (sup. ch 17)
> 03. The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity
> 04. The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity (sup. ch 32)
> 05. Relativity and the Problem of Space

> Note: The fifth appendix was added by Einstein at the time of the fifteenth re-printing of this book; and as a result is still under copyright restrictions so cannot be added without the permission of the publisher.

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