From Newton to Einstein

From Newton to Einstein, subtitled Changing Conceptions of the Universe, is by Benjamin Harrow. The book is marked as a second edition, revised and enlarged, with articles by Prof. Einstein, Prof. J. S. Ames, Sir Frank Dyson, Prof. A. S. Eddington and Sir J. J. Thomson. The preface says the little book attempts to give, in popular form, an account of Einstein's contributions to our ideas of time and space.

The text says Copernicus held that the sun did not move at all, but the earth did, and that far from the earth being the center of the universe, it was but one of several planets revolving around the sun. The text quotes Galileo writing to his friend, Kepler, "I do not venture to bring them to publication." The text quotes Prof. Eddington as saying that the earth moves in a curved orbit, not because the sun exerts any direct pull, but because the earth is trying to find the shortest way through a space and time which have been tangled up by an influence radiating from the sun.