2.10: End of Chapter

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Introductory and final quotes: Excerpt from an unpublished manuscript in Einstein’s handwriting, dating from about 1919. Einstein is referring to the year 1907. Italics represent material underlined in the original. Quoted by Gerald Holton in Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought, Revised Edition (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1988), page 382. Photocopy of the original provided by Professor Holton. Present translation made with the assistance of Peter von Jagow. Figure 2-1 and Jules Verne story: Jules Verne, A Trip From the Earth to the Moon and \(A\) Trip Around the Moon, paperback edition published by Dover Publications, New York. Hardcover edition published in the Great Illustrated Classics Series by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, \(1962 .\)

Information on Nova Scotia tides in Box 2-1: Guinness Book of World Records 1988 (Bantam Books, New York, 1987), page \(125 .\)

Relative acceleration of different materials, Section 2-5: P. G. Roll, R. Krotkov, and \(\mathrm{R}\). H. Dicke, "The equivalence of inertial and passive gravitational mass,’ Annals of Physics (USA), Volume 26, pages \(442-517\) (1964); V. B. Braginsky and V. I. Panov, Zburnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, Volume 61, page 873 (1972) [Soviet Physics JETP, Volume 34, page 463 (1972)].

Experimental proofs of Einstein’s general relativity theory: Clifford Will, Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test (Basic Books, New York, 1986)