The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein, published as an elegant Easton Press edition (1994), distills the Nobel laureate’s revolutionary theories into four masterful lectures on relativity’s foundations. Originally delivered at Princeton in 1921, this concise yet profound work explains special and general relativity, unified field theory, and the universe’s geometric structure—with Einstein’s signature clarity and minimal mathematics.
Bound in Easton Press’s hallmark full leather with 22-karat gold accents, silk moiré endpapers, and archival paper, this edition transforms scientific genius into a tactile artifact. The lectures’ insights—on time dilation, curved spacetime, and E=mc²’s cosmic implications—glow with renewed immediacy in this gilt-edged format.
A paradox of simplicity and depth, this volume is essential for collectors of scientific milestones, offering Einstein’s own voice on “the eternal mystery of the world [as] its comprehensibility.”
Note: The 1994 reprint includes Einstein’s 1945 appendix on cosmology’s postwar developments.
