If you were explaining Einstein's primary goal in writing "Relativity: The Special and General Theory" to someone unfamiliar with physics, what key aspects from the preface would you highlight to convey his intention and the target audience?

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mplest and most intelligible form, and on the ​ whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated. In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist, L. Boltzmann , according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent to the subject. On the other hand,…

RT EINSTEIN , Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN TRANSLATED BY ROBERT W. LAWSON , D.Sc., F. Inst. P. UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD NEW YORK PETER SMITH ​ Copyright , 1920 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY Reprinted, September, 1931, by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC, RAHWAY, N. J. ​ PREFACE T HE present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not…

For works with similar titles, see Relativity . ← Relativity: The Special and General Theory ( 1931 ) by Albert Einstein , illustrated by Hermann Struck , translated by Robert William Lawson THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY → related portals : Relativity An introduction to Einstein ’s space-bending, time-stretching Theory of Relativity , first published in December 1916. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation , respectively. Einstein’s theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of…

Berlin Academy, and it was here that he succeeded in completing his work on the General Theory of Relativity (1915–17). Professor Einstein also lectures on various special branches of physics at the University of Berlin, and, in addition, he is Director of the Institute for Physical Research of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft . Professor Einstein has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married at Berne in 1903, was a fellow-student from Serbia. There were two sons of this marriage, both of whom are living in Zurich, the elder being sixteen years of age. Recently Professor Einstein…

Layout 2 ← THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY Relativity by Albert Einstein , illustrated by Hermann Struck , translated by Robert William Lawson Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions The System of Co-ordinates → New York: Peter Smith, pages 1–4 4371904 Relativity — Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions ​ I PHYSICAL MEANING OF GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS I N your schooldays most of you who read this book made acquaintance with the noble building of Euclid ’s geometry, and you remember—perhaps with more respect than love—the magnificent structure, on the lofty staircase of which you…