Abstract
EVEN to the present day, the existence of the Principle of Relativity, which arose as a branch of physical theory, is somewhat trouble-some to the individual physicist, owing to the efforts of his philosophical friends to obtain a precise account of its origin, treated from an historical point of view, which can emphasise the exact movement of thought leading to its adoption. The literature of the subject has been scattered in various periodicals, and so loaded with mathematical symbols that its appeal has been to a very limited audience, in spite of the real simplicity of all the ideas concerned. Three recent volumes will serve to remove this difficulty very effectually, and two of them possess the advantage of proceeding from entirely different points of view. The first, by Dr. Robb, has already been noticed in these columns, and the second is the volume by” Mr. Cunningham now under review, which is designed to fill the gap specially indicated in our first sentence. The third, by Dr. Silberstein, already noticed also, is similar to Mr. Cunningham's, but is based on a different mathematical treatment.
The Principle of Relativity.
By E. Cunningham. Pp. xiv + 221. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1914.) Price 9s. net.
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The Principle of Relativity . Nature 95, 612–613 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095612a0
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