Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from On Gravitation and Relativity: Being the Halley Lecture, Delivered on June 12, 1920
Let us then conceive of atoms of matter as singularities movable in the aether, and, wherever they go, relaxing its spring or potential energy in their own neighbour hood. Let us employ this conception in a few rough illustrations, in order to mark the character of the phenomena that fall to be explained and the number Of indispensable elements that must be introduced for the purpose.
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