Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein (Rare, 1964)

From the preface by John H. Durston:

“Where previous writers have tried to develop relativity in opposition to the ideas of Isaac Newton, Professor Bondi derives relativity from Newtonian ideas. He pictures relativity as being neither revolutionary nor destructive of classical dynamics but rather as being an organic growth.”

From the back cover of the book:

Readers who have struggled through the succession of “popular” accounts of Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity will find here the first truly different presentation of the subject to appear in fifty years. Instead of plunging he reader immediately into mathematics from which this theory is developed, Professor Bondi first discusses the implications of the theory (and it derivation from the classical physics of Isaac Newton) and then shows how the mathematics arises directly and simply from the physical situation. Any reader with a background of high school algebra can follow his discussion. Sixty drawings and diagrams designed to illustrate the argument (and not merely to decorate the pages) contribute to the clarity of the presentation.