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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Paper book: €14.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1917
Monolingual
22 October 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

O tempo não é o mesmo para todos. Um trem comprido segue viagem. Dois raios atingem os trilhos, um na frente e outro atrás. Um homem que ficou ao lado da linha, à mesma distância dos dois raios, vê os dois caírem no…

The world of the book

Um enigma sobre a velocidade da luz. Há dois séculos a física segue o cientista inglês Isaac Newton: o tempo passa da mesma maneira para todo mundo. Mas, no fim do século XIX, algumas medições deixam os cientistas…

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