This book is not only an accurate history of the physical relativity principles of motion during the last three hundred years, it is also an important book about the cognitive relativity of scientists' understanding of issues that once were challenging but which present day physicists consider commonsense.
Jan Faye, Metascience
Students and professionals will benefit from access to this unique work by an accomplished researcher.
A Spero, CHOICE
As an exercise in long-term history, it demonstrates the connectivity of issues and approaches across several centuries, despite enormous changes in context and culture. As an account of the genesis of relativity theories, it brings unprecedented clarity and fullness by broadening the spectrum of resources on which the principal actors drew.
zb Math Open
This book is not only an accurate history of the physical relativity principles of motion during the last three hundred years, it is also an important book about the cognitive relativity of scientists' understanding of issues that once were challenging but which present-day physicists consider commonsense.
Jan Faye, University of Copenhagen, Metascience
Truly excellent and fills an important gap in the research landscape on relativity.
Juergen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Well thought out and could become the definitive work that connects the developments pertinent to relativity from the 17th century to the present.
John D. Norton, University of Pittsburgh
This first rate work pulls together many historical scientific strands, and is certain to initiate a lively discussion.
Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Caltech