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The Meaning of Relativity (1922)
by Albert Einstein

A compilation of Stafford Little Lectures made by Albert Einstein in 1921 at Princeton University. The lectures were published in 1922 by the Princeton University Press and address the consequences of Einstein's special and general theories or relativity. (Index)

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THE MEANING OF

RELATIVITY


FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED AT

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, MAY, 1921


BY


WITH FOUR DIAGRAMS


PRINCETON

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

1923

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1956, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 67 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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Copyright 1922

Princeton University Press

Published 1922


PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

AT THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

ABERDEEN


Note.—The translation of these lectures into English

was made by Edwin Plimpton Adams, Professor

of Physics in Princeton University