A short description would do this volume no justice so I have shown the contents of the very beginning.
PART ONE : THE WORLD OF MODERN PHYSICS
I. SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS
The Four Eras of Natural Science
Natural Science in Antiquity
Natural Science in the Middle Ages
The Medieval Newton : Alchemist and Mystic
The Modern Newton, Creator of Classical Physics
2. SPACE AND TIME IN MODERN PHYSICS
Relativity I : A Straight Line Is Not Straight
Relativity II : Motions Are Not Determinable
Relativity III: Time Does Not Flow Equably
3. MATTER AND ENERGY IN CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Matter in the Asian Religious Philosophies: Brahma and Tao
The Medieval Concept of Matter : Ether
4. MATTER IN MODERN PHYSICS
The First Dynamic Concept of Matter : The “Ether Vortex” of
Descartes
The Pycnotic Substance : Forerunner of the Wave Theory of
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Einstein’s Concept of Mass-Energy
The Relativistic Variation in Mass, Measure and Time
The Replacement of Newton’s Concept of Gravity by Einstein’s
Concept of the Field
Einstein’s Field Theory. A New Design of the Universe