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RECORD NUMBER: 204 OF 730Main Title | Essays in science / | |||||||||||
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Author | Einstein, Albert, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Barnes & Noble Books, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2004 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 57509138 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0760746990; 9780760746998 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Physics ; Science--Philosophy | |||||||||||
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Edition | Abridged ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xi, 114 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | "This edition published ... by arrangement with Philosophical Library, Inc."--Title page verso. "Copyright Ã1934 by Covici-Friede, Inc."--Title page verso. "'The world as I see it' in its original form includes essays by Einstein on Judaism, Germany, politics and pacifism and sundry other topics. These have been omitted in the present abridged edition"--Preface. |
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Contents Notes | Principles of research -- Inaugural address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- On scientific truth -- On the method of theoretical physics -- Johannes Kepler -- The mechanics of Newton and their influence on the development of theoretical physics -- Clerk Maxwell's influence on the evolution of the idea of physical reality -- Niels Bohr -- On the Theory of Relativity -- What is the Theory of Relativity? -- The problem of space, ether, and the field in physics -- Notes on the origin of the general Theory of Relativity -- The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers and of the so-called Beer's Law -- The Flettner Ship -- Relativity and the ether -- Addresses Columbia University. |