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Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity

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By Alberto A. Martínez

Web edition: August 14, 2009
Print edition: August 29, 2009; Vol.176 #5 (p. 30)

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Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity by Alberto A. Martínez

This often-overlooked branch of mechanics, which describes objects’ motion, provided the foundation for special relativity, a historian argues.

Johns Hopkins Univ., 2009, 464 p., $65.

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