📚 Relativity

Einstein’s rewrite of space and time: special and general, the evidence from eclipses to GPS, and what it did to simultaneity.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject relativity (physics) in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ABC of atoms	Bertrand Russell	1923	105
	Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie	Albert Einstein	1917	102
	Einstein	Walter Isaacson	2007	45
	Six Ideas That Shaped Physics	Thomas A. Moore	1998	32
	El tema de nuestro tiempo	José Ortega y Gasset	1923	30
	The Dancing Wu Li Masters	Gary Zukav	1979	30
	Out of my later years	Albert Einstein	1950	29
	The universe and Dr. Einstein	Lincoln Kinnear Barnett	1948	22
	Easy lessons in Einstein	Edwin Emery Slosson	1920	16
	Raum, Zeit, Materie	Hermann Weyl	1919	15
	Space, time and gravitation	Arthur Stanley Eddington	1920	15
	Chto takoe teorii︠a︡ otnositelʹnosti	L.D Landau	1960	15
	Space-time structure	Erwin Schrödinger	1950	14
	The Einstein theory of relativity	Lillian Rosanoff Lieber	1936	13
	Concepts of modern physics	Arthur Beiser	1963	13
	E=mc2	David Bodanis	2000	13
	Siete breves lecciones de física	Carlo Rovelli	2014	13
	The universe and Dr. Einstein	Lincoln Kinnear Barnett	1948	10
	Relativity for the layman	James A. Coleman	1954	10
	Relativity for the million	Martin Gardner	1962	10
	Mr. Tompkins in paperback	George Gamow	1965	10
	Reinventing Gravity	John W. Moffat	2008	10
	The Hidden Reality	Brian Greene	2011	10
	Relativity	J. L. Synge	1938	9
	Einstein's universe	Nigel Calder	1979	9
	Gravitation und Relativität	Holger Göbel	2014	9
	Einstein's theory of relativity	Max Born	1922	8
	Welcome to the Universe	Neil deGrasse Tyson	2016	8
	The mathematical theory of relativity	Arthur Stanley Eddington	1923	7
	Scientific thought	Charlie Dunbar Broad	1923	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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