The Principle of Relativity
Enriched edition. Exploring the Depths of Relativity TheoryBy Albert Einstein, H. Minkowski
Length7h 43m
About this audiobook
In 'The Principle of Relativity,' readers are ushered into the profound universe of theoretical physics, where scientific innovation and philosophical inquiry meet and mingle. This collection, deftly assembled, juxtaposes groundbreaking essays that unravel the complexities of space-time, energy, and gravity. With a range of literary styles, from intricate mathematical exposition to lucid theorization, the interpretation of physics reimagines the confines of mental and natural phenomena, inviting readers to experience the manifest diversity of ideas propelling modern science to its current heights. Emphasizing the crucial tenets of relativity, this anthology illuminates the paradigm-shifting narratives that have redefined the course of scientific exploration. The anthology benefits immensely from the contributions of eminent figures like Albert Einstein and H. Minkowski, whose insights and pioneering ideas underpin and guide this grand narrative. Their work reflects the zeitgeist of early 20th-century scientific endeavor, characterized by bold innovation and fervent intellectual cross-pollination. The collective voices embodied in this work further articulate the shift from Newtonian physics toward a more comprehensive understanding of the universe, embodying a cultural and intellectual synthesis that highlights the richness and transformative nature of relativity. This collection is an indispensable resource for those eager to traverse the multifaceted landscape of modern physics. The variety of insightful essays gathered within offers not only an educational expedition but also a dialogue between transformative theories articulated by remarkable minds. Readers are encouraged to engage with these profound insights, as they promise an expansive encounter with the cosmos that challenges perceptions and incites critical contemplation of reality itself, making the anthology an essential addition to any scholar's library.
In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (1.4K)
Includes Goodreads, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 17, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Synopsis (Selection)
4Historical Context
5Author Biography
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Principle of Relativity
7HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
8On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies By A. Einstein.
9Principle of Relativity
10§ 8. The Fundamental Equations.
11§12. The Differential Operator Lor.
12APPENDIX Mechanics and the Relativity-Postulate.
13SPACE AND TIME
14The Foundation of the Generalised Theory of Relativity By A. Einstein. From Annalen der Physik 4.49.1916.
15C. THE THEORY OF THE GRAVITATION-FIELD
16D. THE “MATERIAL” PHENOMENA.
17D. THE “MATERIAL” PHENOMENA.
18Analysis
19Reflection
20Memorable Quotes
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Annotated)Albert Einstein5h 10m4.4 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Summarized Edition)Albert Einstein1h 52m4.4 (12)$2
Wie ich die Welt seheAlbert Einstein5h 1m4.3 (5.9K)$1 · $0.00
Albert Einstein - Gesammelte WerkeAlbert Einstein28h 34m4.4 (35)$1 · $0.00
The Theory of RelativityAlbert Einstein4h 58m4.2 (28.5K)$2 · $0.00
3500 ultimes citazioniAlbert Einstein, Platon, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Fyodor Dostoievski, Cicero, Confucius, Socrate, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Bouddha, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Marcus Aurelius, Martin Luther King, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Anne Frank, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Louis de Montesquieu, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry-David Thoreau, Denis Diderot, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas de Chamfort, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Voltaire14h 43m4.3 (11)$24 · $0.00
3500 citações ultimesAlbert Einstein, Platon, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Fyodor Dostoievski, Cicero, Confucius, Socrate, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Bouddha, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, GandhiMarcus Aurelius, Martin Luther King, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Anne Frank, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Louis de Montesquieu, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry-David Thoreau, Denis Diderot, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Nicolas de Chamfort, Voltaire14h 10m4.1 (11)$24 · $0.00
500 citaten om de creativiteit te stimulerenAlbert Einstein, Léonardo da Vinci, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Léonardo Vinci, Antoine Saint Exupéry1h 59m$8 · $0.00
100 citat från Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein24m$5 · $0.00
Warum Krieg?Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud43m4.0 (3.7K)$6 · $0.00
3500 ultimat citatAlbert Einstein, Platon, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Fyodor Dostoievski, Cicero, Confucius, Socrate, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Bouddha, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, GandhiMarcus Aurelius, Martin Luther King, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Anne Frank, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Charles Louis de Montesquieu, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry-David Thoreau, Denis Diderot, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas de Chamfort, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais14h 17m$24 · $0.00
500 citas para estimular la creatividadAlbert Einstein, Léonardo da Vinci, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare1h 51m$8 · $0.00
100 Citazioni sulla scienzaAlbert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Asimov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Walt Whitman, Stephen Hawking, Claude Lévi-Strauss35m$5 · $0.00
100 citazioni umoristicheAlbert Einstein, Frank Zappa, Groucho Marx, Steve Martin, Mark Twain, Charles M. Schulz, Woody Allen, Charles Bukowski24m$5 · $0.00
Mein WeltbildAlbert Einstein7h 22m4.0 (10.1K)$15 · $0.00
100 citações de Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein25m4.6 (11)$5 · $0.00
3500 citas ultimasAlbert Einstein, Carl Jung, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Anton Chekov, Cicero, Confucius, Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Bouddha, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Anne Frank, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Charles Louis de Montesquieu, Soren Kierkegaard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry-David Thoreau, Denis Diderot, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas de Chamfort, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais14h 37m$24 · $0.00
100 citações humorísticasAlbert Einstein, Frank Zappa, Groucho Marx, Steve Martin, Mark Twain, Charles M. Schulz, Woody Allen, Charles Bukowski26m$5 · $0.00
2000 siste sitaterAlbert Einstein, Carl Jung, Baruch Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Anton Chekov, Cicero, Confucius, Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Bouddha, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, Anne Frank8h 22m$18 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
LiftoffEric Berger9h 4m4.6 (9.5K)$29 · $0.00
Distant SkiesMelissa A. Priblo Chapman12h 39m4.7 (379)$23
ApolloCharles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox18h 15m4.6 (3.9K)$30
The Story of BirdsSteve Brusatte11h 49m4.6 (401)$29 · $0.00
Black Earth WisdomLeah Penniman11h 54m4.6 (577)$8 · $0.00
Crystals for BeginnersKaren Frazier3h 49m4.5 (45.6K)$20
What If? 10th Anniversary EditionRandall Munroe7h 29m4.5 (41.4K)$23
Total Cat MojoJackson Galaxy10h 13m4.5 (8.4K)$23 · $0.00
Earth at NightNational Aeronautics and Space Administration2h 26m4.7 (196)$1 · $0.00
My Life Among the UnderdogsTia Torres5h 51m4.5 (4K)$24 · $0.00
What It Takes to Save a LifeKwane Stewart6h4.6 (556)$24 · $0.00
Pastoral SongJames Rebanks8h 35m4.5 (12K)$26 · $0.00
How Stella Learned to TalkChristina Hunger7h4.5 (10.9K)$24 · $0.00
Craig & FredCraig Grossi8h 6m4.5 (9.6K)$26 · $0.00
Celebrating BirdsNatalia Rojas, Ana Maria Martinez6h 47m4.6 (330)$24 · $0.00
WildingIsabella Tree12h 22m4.5 (13.4K)$23
Saving JemimaJulie Zickefoose4h 59m4.5 (749)$20 · $0.00
The Complete Dog Training, Care, & Health GuideDr. Olivia Grace7h 22m4.8 (44)$10 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m4.8 (150)$1.99 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m4.8 (88)$2 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m4.6 (159.1K)$15
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
Richard Wagamese SelectedRichard Wagamese3h 14m4.6 (594)$15
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
Pathways to LightPrakash Amte7h 6m4.6 (1.3K)$8
These Vital SignsSayed Tabatabai3h 20m4.7 (215)$18 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
Lessons in TruthH. Emilie3h 50m4.6 (1.4K)$4.70 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The Poetic EddaJackson Crawford6h 24m4.5 (19.8K)$17
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
You may also like
Hegel: The Science of LogicGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel17h 39m4.3 (1.8K)$1 · $0.00
ParmenidesPlato4h 7m4.0 (13.1K)$2.30
Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsImmanuel Kant5h 2m4.1 (12.3K)$2.30
Experiments on the Absence of Mechanical Connexion between Ether and MatterOliver Joseph Lodge1h 34m$1 · $0.00
Radio-Active Substances (Annotated)Marie Curie5h 54m4.4 (105)$2 · $0.00
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Annotated)Immanuel Kant5h 5m$2 · $0.00
The Chemistry of CookeryW. Mattieu Williams10h 50m$2 · $0.00
MODERN PAINTING – Its Tendency and Meaning (With Images) (Annotated)S.S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright10h 47m$2 · $0.00
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including ChemistryJoseph Priestley4h 39m$2 · $0.00
Historical materialism and the economics of Karl MarxBenedetto Croce5h 25m3.6 (24)$1 · $0.00
Historical materialism and the economics of Karl MarxBenedetto Croce5h 25m3.6 (24)$1 · $0.00
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and InductiveJohn Stuart Mill43h 17m3.8 (41)$1 · $0.00
Early Printed BooksE. Gordon Duff5h 55m3.7 (18)$2.30
Visible HandMatthew Hennessey5h 27m4.2 (111)$17 · $0.00
The Changing Conceptions of the Universe - From Newton to Einstein -Benjamin Harrow, Albert Einstein, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Joseph Sweetman Ames, Joseph John Thomson, Frank Watson Dyson2h 57m3.6 (16)$1 · $0.00
The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)Thomas Little Sir Heath2h 42m4.1 (18)$1 · $0.00
Modern bookbindings: Their design and decorationS. T. Prideaux2h 18m$1 · $0.00
The Earliest Electromagnetic InstrumentsRobert A. Chipman1h 13m$2 · $0.00
Cathode RaysJoseph John Thomson2h 21m$1 · $0.00
Arithmetic of infinityYaroslav D. Sergeyev2h 50m4.5 (12)$19 · $0.00