Beschreibung:

A Einstein, H A Lorentz, H Minkowski and H Weyl
The Principles of Relativity. Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory Of Relativity.
Published: Methuen and Co, London, 19323
Edition: 1st
Methuen & Co. Ltd., London UK, 1923. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. with notes by A. Sommerfeld. translated by W. Perrett and G. B. Jeffery. 216 pages. Original red cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Cloth light faded and faded to spine. Several newspaper clippings enclosed. An influential collection of papers on relativity with many contributions from Einstein as well as three other leading physicists and mathematicians of the early 20th Century. Includes notes by A. Sommerfeld. General relativity was developed by Einstein in the years 1907 - 1915. General relativity postulates that the global Lorentz covariance of special relativity becomes a local Lorentz covariance in the presence of matter. The presence of matter "curves" spacetime, and this curvature affects the path of free particles (and even the path of light). General relativity uses the mathematics of differential geometry and tensors in order to describe gravitation as an effect of the geometry of spacetime. Einstein based this new theory on the general principle of relativity, and he named the theory after the underlying principle. Jacket Condition: N/A Binding Condition: Very good Overall Condition: Very Good Size: 8 vo