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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Paper book: €17.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1917
Bilingual edition
October 22, 2026
Pages
219
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy
Moods
Think it through, Be enchanted
Translated from
German

Book summary

Albert Einstein himself explains relativity to the general public. To make himself understood, he uses everyday examples: a train running along a platform, two flashes of lightning striking at the same moment, a stone dropped from the window of a railway carriage.

You do not need advanced mathematics to follow him, from the speed of light to the curvature of space. At last you understand why time and space are not what we thought, and it is Einstein himself who explains it.

Written in a clear style, with short chapters, the book is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

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The world of the book

A Puzzle About the Speed of Light. For two centuries, physics has followed the English scientist Isaac Newton: time passes in the same way for everyone. But at the end of the 19th century, some measurements puzzle…

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