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Title
Space Time and Gravitation
: An outline of the general relativity theory
Author
Arthur Eddington
Year
1920
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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djvu
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Contents
Eclipse Instruments at Sobral
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Frontispiece
Prologue
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What is Geometry?
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Chapter I
The FitzGerald Contraction
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Chapter II
Relativity
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Chapter III
The World of Four Dimensions
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Chapter IV
Fields of Force
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Kinds of Space
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The New Law of Gravitation and the Old Law
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Weighing Light
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Other Tests of the Theory
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Momentum and Energy
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Chapter XII
On the Nature of Things
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Appendix
Mathematical Notes
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Historical Note
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