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The meaning of relativity

by Albert Einstein

This work contains the 1921 Stafford Little Lectures delivered at Princeton University on the theory of relativity. It includes appendices discussing subsequent progress in the field and the generalised theory of gravitation.

Accession 19744 ISBN 1567311369 Publisher MJF Books
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