%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% START OF DOCUMENT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{document} %% PG BOILERPLATE %% \PGBoilerPlate \begin{center} \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} \small \begin{PGtext} *** Header boilerplate *** \end{PGtext} \end{minipage} \end{center} \newpage %% Credits and transcriber's note %% \begin{center} \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} \begin{PGtext} *** Credits *** \end{PGtext} \end{minipage} \vfill \end{center} \begin{minipage}{0.85\textwidth} \small \BookMark{0}{Transcriber's Note} \subsection*{\centering\normalfont\scshape% \normalsize\MakeLowercase{\TransNote}}% \raggedright \TransNoteText \end{minipage} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FRONT MATTER %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \FrontMatter \PageSep{i} \begin{center} \null\vfill \LARGE THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY \medskip \large OF \medskip \LARGE RELATIVITY \vfill\end{center} \newpage \PageSep{ii} \begin{center} \null\vfill \footnotesize CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS \\ C. F. CLAY, \textsc{Manager} \\ LONDON : FETTER LANE, E.C. 4 \\[1in] %[** Cambridge University Press publisher's device] LONDON : H. K. LEWIS AND CO., \textsc{Ltd.}, \\ {\scriptsize 136 Gower Street, W.C. 1} \\ NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN CO. \\ \smallskip $\left.\begin{aligned} &\text{BOMBAY} \\ &\text{CALCUTTA} \\ &\text{MADRAS} \end{aligned}\right\}$ MACMILLAN AND CO., \textsc{Ltd.} \\ \smallskip TORONTO : THE MACMILLAN CO. OF \\ CANADA, \textsc{Ltd.} \\ TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA \\ \bigskip \scriptsize ALL RIGHTS RESERVED \vfill \end{center} \newpage \PageSep{iii} \begin{center} \LARGE THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY \medskip \large OF \medskip \LARGE RELATIVITY \bigskip \normalsize BY \\ \Large A. S. EDDINGTON, M.A., \textsc{M.Sc.}, F.R.S. \bigskip \scriptsize PLUMIAN PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND EXPERIMENTAL \\[6pt] PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE \vfill \large CAMBRIDGE \\[6pt] AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS \\[6pt] 1923 \end{center} \newpage \PageSep{iv} \begin{center} \null\vfill \scriptsize PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN \end{center} \newpage \PageSep{v} \Preface \First{A FIRST} draft of this book was published in 1921 as a mathematical supplement to the French Edition of \Title{Space, Time and Gravitation}. During the ensuing eighteen months I have pursued my intention of developing it into a more systematic and comprehensive treatise on the mathematical theory of Relativity. The matter has been rewritten, the sequence of the argument rearranged in many places, and numerous additions made throughout; so that the work is now expanded to three times its former size. It is hoped that, as now enlarged, it may meet the needs of those who wish to enter fully into these problems of reconstruction of theoretical physics.