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Click to enlargeA Sophisticate's Primer of Relativity: Second Edition

P. W. Bridgman
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ISBN: 0486425495
Page Count: 224
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Geared toward readers already acquainted with special relativity, this book transcends the view of theory as a working tool to answer natural questions: What is a frame of reference? What is a "law of nature"? What is the role of the "observer"? Extensive, nonscientific treatment. 1983 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second edition originally published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1984.

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