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Start of eBook	1
Part II: The General Theory of Relativity	1
Part III: Considerations on the Universe as a Whole	1
PREFACE	1
PART I	2
PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS	2
THE SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES	3
SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS	5
THE GALILEIAN SYSTEM OF CO-ORDINATES	6
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ON THE IDEA OF TIME IN PHYSICS	11
THE RELATIVITY OF SIMULATNEITY	13
ON THE RELATIVITY OF THE CONCEPTION OF DISTANCE	14
THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION	15
THE BEHAVIOUR OF MEASURING-RODS AND CLOCKS IN MOTION	17
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THE HEURISTIC VALUE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY	20
GENERAL RESULTS OF THE THEORY	21
Thus the body has the same energy as a body of mass	22
EXPERIENCE AND THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY	23
MINKOWSKI’S FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE	26
PART II	27
SPECIAL AND GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY	27
THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD	29
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A FEW INFERENCES FROM THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY	34
BEHAVIOUR OF CLOCKS AND MEASURING-RODS ON A ROTATING BODY OF REFERENCE	36
EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM	38
GAUSSIAN CO-ORDINATES	40
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EXACT FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY	45
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PART III	49
COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES OF NEWTON’S THEORY	49
THE POSSIBILITY OF A “FINITE” AND YET “UNBOUNDED” UNIVERSE	50
THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY	53
APPENDIX I	54
APPENDIX II	57
APPENDIX III	57
APPENDIX IV	62
Information about Project Gutenberg (one page)	64
(Three Pages)	65

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