"Most of the material ... appeared originally in the New Yorker."
Bibliography: pages [231]-234.
pt. I. The theory of relativity. 1. Preamble: Einstein and the Queen of Belgium -- 2. Early years -- 3. Classical physics -- 4. An aside on the Michelson-Morley experiment -- 5. Einstein and the relativity of time -- pt. 2. Relativity, gravitation, and cosmology. 6 Preamble: Einstein when young -- 7. Lorentz and Poincaré -- 8. E=mc² -- 9. Four-dimensional space-time -- 10. Mach's principles -- 11. The First World War and the bending of light -- 12. Geometry and cosmology -- pt. III. The quantum theory. 13. Preamble: Einstein and Newton -- 14. Brownian motion -- 15. The quantum -- 16. The middle years -- 17. God's dice -- 18. Uranium and the Queen of Belgium