Absolute or Relative Motion? Volume 1: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories

Absolute or Relative Motion #1

by Julian Barbour

Book by Barbour, Julian B.

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1989

About the author

Julian Barbour (1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.

Since receiving his PhD degree on the foundations of Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University of Cologne in 1968, Barbour has supported himself and his family without an academic position, working part-time as a translator. He has research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.