20th CenturyNatural Science

Einstein: Relativity

Einstein's own popular explanation: trains, lightning flashes, clocks, and gravity as the shape of space and time.

✎ Being written
Volume
56 of the 1990 set
Author
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Work
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 1916 (English 1920)

Ideas: Motion and force Time Light and color The heavens and the planets

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