The Grammar of Science is a book by Karl Pearson first published in hardback in 1892. In 1900, the second edition, published by Adam & Charles Black, appeared. The third, revised, edition was also published by Adam & Charles Black in 1911. It was recommended by Einstein to his friends of the Olympia Academy. Several themes were covered in this book that later became part of the theories of Einstein and other scientists, such as:
- the relativity of motion to a frame of reference (fixed stars),
- the equivalence of "matter" and energy,
- physics as geometry,
- the non-existence of the ether,
- the importance of creative imagination rather than mere fact-gathering,
- antimatter,
- fourth dimension,
- wrinkles in space,
- molecular relative position and motion, and
- motion of corpuscles as relative motion in a field.
Read more about The Grammar Of Science: Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VI, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, Chapter IX, Chapter X, Editions in Print, Editions Online
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