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Relativity and Its Roots by Banesh Hoffman. -- is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Relativity and Its Roots about?
Entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory trace development from basis in geometrical, cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, plus work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, others. 1983 edition.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Banesh Hoffman. --
- Publisher
- [New York, N.Y.]: Scientific American Books: Distributed by W.H. Freeman
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780716714781
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, History, Physics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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