THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY

and its Influence on Scientific Thought

BY

ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON

M.A., F.R.S.

Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge President of the Royal Astronomical Society

DELIVERED IN THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE 24 MAY, 1922

OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1922

Has not a deeper meditation taught certain of every climate and age, that the where and the when so mysteriously inseparable from all our thoughts, are but superficial terrestrial adhesions to thought?

CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus.

Oxford University Press