Emile Kerssemakers Antiquarian Bookshop
nldefr
Emile Kerssemakers – Antiquarian Books

Boeknummer: 80691

The Principle of Relativity in the Light of the Philosophy of Science.

Carus, Paul.

The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913

€ 30,00

23.5 × 15.5 cm, green cloth hardcover, vi, 106 pages, English, slightly browned, in very good condition, see picture.

An early philosophical discussion of the principle of relativity, published just before Einstein’s general theory was completed. Paul Carus (1852–1919) was a German-American philosopher and editor of Open Court Publishing, known for his works on the philosophy of science, mathematics, and religion. This edition includes historical notes on earlier conceptions of motion and relativity in natural philosophy.