The evolution of scientific thought from Newton to Einstein
by A. D'Abro
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A non-technical survey of pre-relativity physics, from Newton through Riemann to Lorentz, and its inadequacies, and a review of Einstein's special and general theories and their significance
Chapters (559)
- THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT FROM NEWTON TO EINSTEIN
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PART I PRE-RELATIVITY PHYSICS
- CHAPTER I MANIFOLDS
- CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF METRICAL GEOMETRY
- CHAPTER III RIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES AND CONGRUENCE
- CHAPTER IV THE PROBLEM OF PHYSICAL SPACE
- CHAPTER V AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF THE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES
- CHAPTER VI TIME
- CHAPTER VII SYSTEMS OF CO-ORDINATES AND DISTANCE
- CHAPTER VIII THE MEANING OF THE WORD RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER IX THE PRINCIPLES OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER X CLASSICAL MECHANICS AND THE NEWTONIAN PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XI THE ETHER
- CHAPTER XII THE EQUATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETICS AND LORENTZ’S THEORY
- PART II THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XIII EINSTEIN’S SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XIV RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
- CHAPTER XV CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEW SPACE AND TIME MEASUREMENTS—SIMULTANEITY
- CHAPTER XVI PRACTICAL CONGRUENCE IN RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XVII THE MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION OF EINSTEIN’S FUNDAMENTAL PREMISES
- CHAPTER XVIII THE DISCOVERY OF SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER XIX VARIOUS POSSIBLE WORLDS
- CHAPTER XX THE IRREVERSIBILITY OF TIME
- CHAPTER XXI THE REALITY OF THE CONTRACTION OF LENGTHS AND OF THE LENGTHENING OF DURATIONS
- CHAPTER XXII AND THE TRIP TO THE STAR
- PART III THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XXIII POTENTIALS AND FORCES
- CHAPTER XXIV THE POSTULATE OF EQUIVALENCE
- CHAPTER XXV THE INCLUSION OF GRAVITATION IN THE MODEL OF SPACE-TIME
- CHAPTER XXVI TENSORS AND THE LAWS OF NATURE
- CHAPTER XXVII THE PRINCIPLE OF GENERAL COVARIANCE, OR THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE DISCOVERY OF THE EINSTEINIAN LAW OF GRAVITATION
- CHAPTER XXIX THE GENERAL LAWS OF MOTION
- CHAPTER XXX THE VERIFICATION OF EINSTEIN’S LAW
- CHAPTER XXXI THE SEPARATION OF SPACE-TIME INTO SPACE AND TIME IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
- CHAPTER XXXII THE PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATION
- CHAPTER XXXIII OTHER ASPECTS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL EQUATIONS
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE FINITENESS OF THE UNIVERSE
- CHAPTER XXXV THE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE-TIME, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF ACTION
- CHAPTER XXXVI THE MYSTERY OF MATTER
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE THEORIES OF WEYL AND EDDINGTON
- PART IV THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
- CHAPTER XXXIX THE CO-ORDINATION OF PHYSICAL FACTS ACCOMPLISHED BY RELATIVITY
- CHAPTER XL THE GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I THE SPACE AND TIME GRAPHS
- APPENDIX II THE CURVATURES OF SPACE-TIME
- APPENDIX III THE GRAVITATIONAL EQUATIONS
- APPENDIX IV SPACE, GRAVITATION AND SPACE-TIME
- FOOTNOTES:
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