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| Title: | Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material from the Essays Submitted in the Competition for the Eugene Higgins Prize of $5,000 | |
| Editor: | James Malcolm Bird (1886–1964) | Info |
| Contributor: | A. d’Abro | |
| Contributor: | L. M. Alexander | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Joseph S. Ames | |
| Contributor: | Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade | |
| Contributor: | Lieut. W. Mark Angus | |
| Contributor: | Paul M. Batchelder | |
| Contributor: | E. T. Bell | |
| Contributor: | Lyndon Bolton | |
| Contributor: | Dr. George de Bothezat | |
| Contributor: | Charles A. Brunn | |
| Contributor: | Charles H. Burr | |
| Contributor: | Dorothy Burr | |
| Contributor: | Elwyn F. Burrill | |
| Contributor: | Professor A. E. Caswell | |
| Contributor: | Edward A. Clarke | |
| Contributor: | Harold T. Davis | |
| Contributor: | R. F. Deimel | |
| Contributor: | C. E. Dimick | |
| Contributor: | Saul Dushman | |
| Contributor: | Hugh Elliot | |
| Contributor: | Earl R. Evans | |
| Contributor: | E. P. Fairbairn, M.C., B.Sc. | |
| Contributor: | Francis Farquhar | |
| Contributor: | Montgomery Francis | |
| Contributor: | J. Elias Fries, Fellow A.I.E.E. | |
| Contributor: | H. Gartelmann | |
| Contributor: | James O. G. Gibbons | |
| Contributor: | Norman E. Gilbert | |
| Contributor: | Dean W. P. Graham | |
| Contributor: | D. B. Hall | |
| Contributor: | George Frederick Hemens, M.C., B.Sc. | |
| Contributor: | C. W. Kanolt | |
| Contributor: | Frank E. Law | |
| Contributor: | R. Bruce Lindsay | |
| Contributor: | Rev. George Thomas Manley | |
| Contributor: | George F. Marsteller | |
| Contributor: | John G. McHardy | |
| Contributor: | L. F. H. de Miffonis. B.A., C.E. | |
| Contributor: | Col. John Millis | |
| Contributor: | Dr. M. C. Mott-Smith | |
| Contributor: | Dr. Francis D. Murnaghan | |
| Contributor: | Edward A. Partridge | |
| Contributor: | Professor Andrew H. Patterson | |
| Contributor: | Professor William H. Pickering | |
| Contributor: | William Hemmenway Pratt | |
| Contributor: | Kenneth W. Reed | |
| Contributor: | James Rice | |
| Contributor: | Edward Adams Richardson | |
| Contributor: | Walter van B. Roberts | |
| Contributor: | C. E. Rose, M.E. | |
| Contributor: | T. Royds | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Henry Norris Russell | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Moritz Schlick | |
| Contributor: | Leopold Schorsch | |
| Contributor: | Prof. J. A. Schouten | |
| Contributor: | Frederick W. Shurlock | |
| Contributor: | W. de Sitter | |
| Contributor: | Prof. William Benjamin Smith | |
| Contributor: | Robert Stevenson | |
| Contributor: | Prof. W. F. G. Swann | |
| Contributor: | Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster | |
| Contributor: | L. L. Whyte | |
| Contributor: | Prof. R. W. Wood | |
| Language: | English | |
| Original publication date: | 1921 |
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| vii | is made is made | is made | 8 |
| viii | btween | between | 1 |
| xiii | Chiselhurst | Chislehurst | 2 |
| 28 | attriuting | attributing | 1 |
| 38 | axis | axes | 1 |
| 46, 327 | [Not in source] | , | 1 |
| 48 | [Not in source] | ” | 1 |
| 59 | assums | assumes | 1 |
| 61 | II | III | 1 |
| 74 | follows | follow | 1 |
| 74 | parellel | parallel | 1 |
| 96 | inadmissable | inadmissible | 1 |
| 110 | apposite | opposite | 1 |
| 114 | synonomous | synonymous | 1 |
| 123 | indepedent | independent | 1 |
| 125 | Descartean | Cartesian | 6 |
| 126 | propostions | propositions | 1 |
| 127 | ’ | ” | 1 |
| 144 | incomphehensible | incomprehensible | 1 |
| 151 | hypothenuse | hypotenuse | 1 |
| 153 | dimension | dimensions | 1 |
| 156 | Betelguese | Betelgeuse | 2 |
| 169, 282, 282 | coördinates | coordinates | 1 / 0 |
| 170 | [Not in source] | . | 1 |
| 181 | Michelsen | Michelson | 1 |
| 182 | Michelsen-Morley | Michelson-Morley | 1 |
| 185 | that: | [Deleted] | 5 |
| 205 | gometry | geometry | 1 |
| 206 | and | und | 1 |
| 213 | distroyed | destroyed | 1 |
| 219 | wells | walls | 1 |
| 228 | indisolubly | indissolubly | 1 |
| 231 | signficance | significance | 1 |
| 240 | amazinging | amazing | 3 |
| 244 | dimsensions | dimensions | 1 |
| 249 | Relativitatstheorie | Relativitätstheorie | 1 / 0 |
| 254 | oberservers | observers | 2 |
| 260, 345 | co-ordinates | coordinates | 1 |
| 262 | or | of | 1 |
| 279 | Poincairé | Poincaré | 1 |
| 291 | Jean | Jeans | 1 |
| 298 | methematicians | mathematicians | 1 |
| 305, 305, 305 | Asso. | Assoc. | 1 |
| 305 | Astro. | Astron. | 1 |
| 312 | axactly | exactly | 1 |
| 315 | . | , | 1 |
| 319 | acrross | across | 1 |
| 322 | us | use | 1 |
| 327 | BY | [Deleted] | 3 |
| 329 | waste | wasted | 1 |
| 330 | analagous | analogous | 1 |
| 335 | rotatons | rotations | 1 |
| 340 | imbedded | embedded | 1 |
| 343, 343 | co-ordinate | coordinate | 1 |
| 344 | gravitaton | gravitation | 1 |
| 345 | line | live | 1 |