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Sidelights on Relativity

by Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

2 chapters, about 8,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY 3,500 words
2. GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE 4,400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Action at a distance
• Euclidean geometry
• Field (physics)
• Geometry
• Theory of relativity

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