These accessible speeches and essays by the renowned scientist profile influential physicists and explore the areas of physics to which Einstein made major contributions. Subjects include theoretical physics, relativity, and the principles of research and scientific truth as well as personalities such as Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, Bohr, and Planck.
Reprint of Essays in Science, The Wisdom Library, A Division of Philosophical Library, New York, 1934.

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Table of Contents for Einstein's Essays in Science
PRINCIPLES OF RESEARCH
INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO THE PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
ON SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
ON THE METHOD OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
JOHANNES KEPLER
THE MECHANICS OF NEWTON AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
CLERK MAXWELL'S INFLUENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF PHYSICAL REALITY
NIELS BOHR
WHAT IS THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY?
THE PROBLEM OF SPACE, ETHER, AND THE FIELD IN PHYSICS
NOTES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
THE CAUSE OF THE FORMATION OF MEANDERS IN THE COURSES OF RIVERS AND OF THE SO-CALLED BEER'S LAW
THE FLETTNER SHIP
RELATIVITY AND THE ETHER
ADDRESS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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