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Relativity

Albert

Einstein

Relativity

The Special and the General Theory

Authorised translation by Robert W. Lawson

London and New York

First published in 1916

English edition ﬁrst published in the United Kingdom 1920

by Methuen & Co. Ltd

Fifteenth, enlarged edition January 1954

First published by Routledge 1993

First published in Routledge Classics 2001

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

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ISBN 0–415–25538–4 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–25384–5 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-19871-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-19874-3 (Glassbook Format)