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