The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity

Dodd, Mead and Company, Published 1923. Hardcover, viii, 216 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition (dated 1923 on title page with no additional printings); with seven diagrams; printed at the University Press, Aberdeen. In Good condition, lacking the dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with the original printed paper label on the spine bearing the title and authors. Mild to moderate shelf wear with some color loss along the edges and soiling and toning to the spine cloth. The paper spine label has chipping along the right edge with loss to the upper right corner. A few razor-thin cracks to the binding but the text block remains very solid in the boards. Pages mildly toned with heavier toning to the endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise unmarked.The first English-language collection of original memoirs on the special and general theory of relativity. Translated by W. Perrett and G. B. Jeffery from the German collection "Des Relativitätsprinzip" (Teubner, 4th ed., 1922), with notes by A. Sommerfeld. Gathers key papers in the development of modern physics, including Einstein's "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (1905), Minkowski's "Space and Time" (1908), Einstein's "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity" (1916), and Weyl's "Gravitation and Electricity," along with contributions by Lorentz on Michelson's interference experiment and electromagnetic phenomena.Contents: Michelson's Interference Experiment by H. A. Lorentz; Electromagnetic Phenomena in a System Moving with Any Velocity Less Than That of Light by H. A. Lorentz; On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by A. Einstein; Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content? by A. Einstein; Space and Time by H. Minkowski; On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light by A. Einstein; The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Hamilton's Principle and the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Do Gravitational Fields Play an Essential Part in the Structure of the Elementary Particles of Matter? by A. Einstein; Gravitation and Electricity by H. Weyl. …