This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein’s life, with in-depth studies of its background as built upon by ideas from earlier scientists. The focus points of Einstein’s
This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein’s life, covering the origins of his ideas and his debt to the work of Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Mach and others; the birth of
These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a
