The Evolution of Physics
Subtitle: The Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
By: by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld.
Edition: First edition
Series: Cambridge Library of Modern Science
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press
Published: 1938, Copyright in the USA by Simon and Schuster, New York
Place of publication: Cambridge University Press Bentley House, London, N.W. I, Great Britain
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Physics -- History.; Relativity (Physics); Quantum theory.
First sentence: In imagination there exists the perfect mystery story.
Description: The book is a simple chat between you and us.  You may find it boring or interesting, dull or exciting, but our aim will be accomplished if these pages give you some idea of the eternal struggle of the inventive human mind for a fuller understanding of the laws governing physical phenomena.
A. E.
L. I.
Notes: Acknowledgments:
We wish to thank all those who have so kindly helped us with the preparation of this book, in particular:
Professors A. G. Shenstone, Princeton, N.J., and St Loria, Lwow, Poland, for photographs on plate III.
I. N. Steinberg for his drawings.
Dr M. Phillips for reading the manuscript and for her very kind help.
A. E.
L. I.
Table of contents: label: I.
title: THE RISE OF THE MECHANICAL VIEW; title: The great mystery story
pagenum: 3; title: The first clue
pagenum: 5; title: Vectors
pagenum: 12; title: The riddle of motion
pagenum: 19; title: One clue remains
pagenum: 34; title: Is heat a substance?
pagenum: 38; title: The switchback
pagenum: 47; title: The rate of exchange
pagenum: 51; title: The philosophical background
pagenum: 55; title: The kinetic theory of matter
pagenum: 59; label: II.
title: THE DECLINE OF THE MECHANICAL VIEW; title: The two electric fluids
pagenum: 71; title: The magnetic fluids
pagenum: 83; title: The first serious difficulty
pagenum: 87; title: The velocity of light
pagenum: 94; title: Light as substance
pagenum: 97; title: The riddle of colour
pagenum: 100; title: What is a wave?
pagenum: 104; title: The wave theory of light
pagenum: 110; title: Longitudinal or transverse light waves?
pagenum: 120; title: Ether and the mechanical view
pagenum: 123; label: III.
title: FIELD, RELATIVITY; title: The field as representation
pagenum: 129; title: The two pillars of the field theory
pagenum: 142; title: The reality of the field
pagenum: 148; title: Field and ether
pagenum: 156; title: The mechanical scaffold
pagenum: 160; title: Ether and motion
pagenum: 172; title: Time, distance, relativity
pagenum: 186; title: Relativity and mechanics
pagenum: 202; title: The time-space continuum
pagenum: 209; title: General relativity
pagenum: 220; title: Outside and inside the lift
pagenum: 226; title: Geometry and experiment
pagenum: 235; title: General relativity and its verification
pagenum: 249; title: Field and matter
pagenum: 255; label: IV.
title: QUANTA; title: Continuity, discontinuity
pagenum: 263; title: Elementary quanta of matter and electricity
pagenum: 265; title: The quanta of light
pagenum: 272; title: Light spectra
pagenum: 280; title: The waves of matter
pagenum: 286; title: Probability waves
pagenum: 294; title: Physics and reality
pagenum: 310; title: Index
pagenum: 317; title: LIST OF PLATES; label: Plate I.
title: Brownian movement
pagenum: facing page 66; label: II.
title: Diffraction of light
pagenum: 118; label: III.
title: Spectral lines, diffraction of X-rays and of electronic waves
pagenum: 286