A.W. Conway. Relativity. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1915. Edinburgh Mathematical Tracts No3. 215x140mm, 43pp. Stiff wrappers. Good/Very Good copy. $150 This is one of the earliest separately-published works on the theory of relativity. Interestingly, Einstein's name appears only twice in the text, in this sample (below) and at the end.
“Here we have at once a result at variance with our hypothesis that the aether is at rest. An explanation was put forward independently by
Fitzgerald and Lorentz, and developed in detail by the (... the Fitzgerald- Lorentz contraction) could compensate for the difference of
path in such a way that the null effect of the Michelson-Morley experiment would be adequately explained. The mathematical treatment
of this theory in the hands of Lorentz and Larmor shows that all experiments on the relative motion of matter and ether must give
approximately a null result."
"The interpretation of these experiments received a different treatment from Einstein, whose paper in the " Annalen der Physik,"
4te Folge. 17, 1905, gave rise to most of the recent theoretical investigations which are included under the head of "Relativity."
I shall now proceed to the deduction of the fundamental equations of this theory, following the above-named paper...”
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