Table Of ContentDOVER SCIENCE BOOKS
DE RE METALLICA, Georgius Agricola. (60006-8)
THE FERMI SOLUTION: ESSAYS ON SCIENCE, Hans
Christian von Baeyer. (41707-7)
EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE
GASTRIC JUICE AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF
DIGESTION, William Beaumont. (69213-2)
THE PIROTECHNIA, Vannoccio Biringuccio. (26134-4)
CLOUDS IN A GLASS OF BEER: SIMPLE
EXPERIMENTS IN ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, Craig F.
Bohren. (41738-7)
EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY, Max Born.
(60769-0)
ARS MAGNA, OR THE RULES OF ALGEBRA, Girolamo
Cardano. (67811-3)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED LETTERS, Charles
Darwin. (20479-0)
THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, Leonardo
da Vinci. (Available in United States only.) (22572-0,
22573-9) Two-volume set
THE GEOMETRY, René Descartes. (60068-8)
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INVESTIGATIONS ON THE THEORY OF THE
BROWNIAN MOVEMENT, Albert Einstein. (60304-0)
SIDELIGHTS ON RELATIVITY, Albert Einstein.
(24511-X)
THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY, Albert Einstein,
Hendrik Lorentz, H. Minkowski, and Hermann Weyl.
(60081-5)
THE THIRTEEN BOOKS OF EUCLID’S ELEMENTS,
translated with an introduction and commentary by Sir
Thomas L. Heath. (60088-2, 60089-0, 60090-4)
Three-volume set
THERMODYNAMICS, Enrico Fermi. (60361-X)
ON DREAMS, Sigmund Freud (translated by M. D. Eder).
(41595-3)
WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS,
Sigmund Freud. (27742-9)
DIALOGUES CONCERNING Two NEW SCIENCE,
Galileo Galilei. (60099-8)
DE MAGNETE, William Gilbert. (26761-X)
ON FORMALLY UNDECIDABLE PROPOSITIONS OF
PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA AND RELATED SYSTEMS,
Kurt Gödel. (66980-7)
THE ANATOMICAL EXERCISES: DE MOTU CORDIS
AND DE CIRCULATIONE SANGUINIS IN ENGLISH
TRANSLATION, William Harvey. (68827-5)
THE PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE QUANTUM
THEORY, Werner Heisenberg. (60113-7)
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ON THE SENSATIONS OF TONE, Hermann L. F.
Helmholtz. (60753-4)
THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY, William James.
(20381-6, 20382-4) Two-volume set
PSYCHOLOGY: THE BRIEFER COURSE, William James.
(41604-6)
PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Sir James Jeans. (24117-3)
SCIENCE AND Music, Sir James Jeans. (61964-8)
HYDRODYNAMICS, Sir Horace Lamb. (Available in
United States only.) (60256-7)
THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS,
Cornelius Lanczos. (65067-7)
THE SPECIFICITY OF SEROLOGICAL REACTIONS,
Karl Landsteiner. (66203-9)
EARTH, THE SAPPHIRE PLANET, Url Lanham. (40677-6)
A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES, Pierre
Simon, Marquis de Laplace. (28875-7)
ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, Antoine Lavoisier.
(64624-6)
MATTER AND MOTION, James Clerk Maxwell. (66895-9)
A TREATISE ON ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM,
James Clerk Maxwell. (60636-8, 60637-6) Two-volume set
OPTICKS, Isaac Newton. (60205-2)
NOTES ON NURSING, Florence Nightingale. (22340-X)
THEORY OF RELATIVITY, W. Pauli. (64152-X)
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EIGHT LECTURES ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS, Max
Planck. (69730-4)
A SURVEY OF PHYSICAL THEORY, Max Planck.
(67867-9)
TREATISE ON THERMODYNAMICS, Max Planck.
(66371-X)
SCIENCE AND HYPOTHESIS, Henri Poincaré. (60221-4)
THE VARIOUS AND INGENIOUS MACHINES OF
AGOSTINO RAMELLI, Agostino Ramelli. (28180-9)
THEORY OF SOUND, Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt).
(60292-3, 60293-1) Two-volume set
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE AND TIME, Hans
Reichenbach. (60443-8)
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS, Erwin Schrödinger.
(66101-6)
THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND OCEANS, Alfred
Wegener. (61708-4)
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Photo Credits:
Pages iii, v, vi, xi, 1 ,5, 11, 23, 43, 81, 129, 159, The
Bettmann Archive
Pages 6, 13, The Granger Collection
Page 20, Reproduced through the courtesy of the Bancroft
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Copyright Copyright © 1983 by Banesh Hoffmann
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1999, is an unabridged
and unaltered republication of the work originally published
by Scientific American Books, New York, in 1983.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoffmann, Banesh, 1906–
Relativity and its roots / Banesh Hoffmann.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Scientific American Books,
1983.
Includes index.
9780486150116
1. Relativity (Physics)—History. I. Title.
QC173.52.H63 1999
530.11—dc21
98-48651 CIP
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