Relativity and Its Roots
Book Details
Author(s)Banesh Hoffmann
PublisherDover Publications
ISBN / ASIN0486406768
ISBN-139780486406763
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,017,389
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Using simple examples from everyday life, an Einstein scholar offers entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory. Starting with the geometrical and cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, he traces the theory's development from its basis in work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and others. 1983 edition.

