To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of …

In this thought-provoking book, written for the layman, a noted physicist offers a fresh,
nonmathematical introduction to the conceptual foundations of both Newton's and Einstein's …

Revolution was Isaac Newton's discovery of the law of universal gravitation: All objects
attract each oth er with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and …

Representing a decade's work from one of the world's most distinguished physicists, this
major publication is, as far as is known, the first comprehensive analysis of Newton's …

The third edition of this classic textbook is a quantitative introduction for advanced
undergraduates and graduate students. It gently guides students from Newton's gravitational …

IN NOVEMBER 1894, THE ASTRONOMER HUGO SEELIGER sent the journal
Astronomische Nachrichten a short article pointing out that Newton's law of gravitation could …

Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this
highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology …

[en] This book is a populary introduction to the current status of research in gravitation. After
a description of the gravitational theory of Newton and Einstein's general relativity theory the …

A book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms
comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born is …

" Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of
view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes …