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• INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I. GEOMETRY AND COSMOLOGY1. The Origin of the Art of Measuring Space and Time2. Units of Length and Time3. Origin and Coordinate System4. The Axioms of Geometry5. The Ptolemaic System6. The Copernican System7. The Elaboration of the Copernican DoctrineCHAPTER II. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS1. Equilibrium and the Concept of Force2. The Study of Motion?Rectilinear Motion3. Motion in a Plane4. Circular Motion5. Motion in Space6. Dynamics?The Law of Inertia7. Impulses8. The Effect of an Impulse9. Mass and Momentum10. Force and Acceleration11. Example?Elastic Vibrations12. Weight and Mass13. Analytical Mechanics14. The Law of Energy15. Dynamical Units of Force and MassCHAPTER III. THE NEWTONIAN WORLD SYSTEM1. Absolute Space and Absolute Time2. Newton's Law of Attraction3. Universal Gravitation4. Celestial Mechanics5. The Relativity Principle of Classical Mechanics6. Limited Absolute Space7. Galileo Transformations8. Inertial Forces9. Centrifugal Forces and Absolute SpaceCHAPTER IV. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF OPTICS1. The Ether2. The Corpuscular and the Undulatory Theory3. The Velocity of Light4. Elements of the Wave Theory?Interference5. Polarization and Transversality of Light Waves6. The Ether as an Elastic Solid7. The Optics of Moving Bodies8. The Doppler Effect9. The Convection of Light by Matter10. Aberration11. Retrospect and Further DevelopmentCHAPTER V. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF ELECTRODYNAMICS1. Electro- and Magnetostatics2. Voltaic Electricity and Electrolysis3. Resistance and Heat of Current4. Electromagnetism5. Faraday's Lines of Force6. The Electrical Displacement Current7. Magnetic Induction8. Maxwell's Theory of Action by Contact9. The Electromagnetic Theory of Light10. The Electromagnetic Ether11. Hertz's Theory of Moving Bodies12. The Electron Theory of Lorentz13. Electromagnetic Mass14. Michelson and Morley's Experiment15. The Contraction HypothesisCHAPTER VI. EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL PRINCIPLE OR RELATIVITY1. The Concept of Simultaneity2. Einstein's Kinematics and Lorentz's Transformations3. Geometrical Representation of Einstein's Mechanics4. Moving Measuring Rods and Clocks5. Appearance and Reality6. The Addition of Velocities7. Einstein's Dynamics8. The Inertia of Energy9. Energy and Momentum10. Optics of Moving Bodies11. Minkowski's Absolute WorldCHAPTER VII. EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY1. Relativity in the Case of Arbitrary Motions2. The Principle of Equivalence3. The Failure of Euclidean Geometry4. Geometry on Curved Surfaces5. The Two-dimensional Continuum6. Mathematics and Reality7. The Metric of the Space-Time Continuum8. The Fundamental Laws of the New Mechanics9. Mechanical Inferences and Confirmations10. Predictions of the New Mechanics and Their Confirmations11. Optical Deductions and Confirmations12. Cosmology13. The Unified Field Theory14. ConclusionINDEX