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

By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

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

KINEMATICS: THE LOST ORIGINS OF EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY BY ALBERTO A. MARTíNEZ

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

A version of this article appears in the August 29, 2009 issue of Science News.

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