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