Volume 33, Number 19 · December 4, 1986
Secrets of the Old One
By Martin Gardner
Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test
by Clifford M. Will
Basic Books, 274 pp., $18.95
'Newton, forgive me,' Einstein wrote in an autobiographical essay. 'You found the only way which, in your age, was just about possible for a man of highest thought and creative power.' What was Einstein asking forgiveness for? That is the subject of this splendid book by Clifford Will, a physicist at Washington University, in St. Louis.
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