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authornfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>2025-04-07 05:21:25 -0700
committernfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>2025-04-07 05:21:25 -0700
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@@ -176,14 +176,18 @@ img {
width: 100%
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.figcenter {
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
page-break-inside: avoid;
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float: right;
clear: right;
@@ -254,12 +258,12 @@ img {
<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75807 ***</div>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="cover" style="width: 1600px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="cover">
<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="1600" height="2360" alt="This book is one of the first popularizations of Einstein′s theory of relativity.">
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i_frontis" style="width: 1200px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i_frontis">
<img src="images/i_frontis.jpg" width="1200" height="1453" alt="Black-and-white photo of Einstein with wild hair and mustache seated at a desk with papers and a lamp.">
<figcaption class="caption">
@@ -272,7 +276,7 @@ img {
<hr class="chap">
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i_title" style="width: 1200px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i_title">
<img src="images/i_title.jpg" width="1200" height="1975" alt="Title page of the book Easy Lessons in Einstein.">
</figure>
@@ -311,7 +315,7 @@ and a Bibliography</i></p>
<p class="nindc space-above2 space-below2">ILLUSTRATED</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i_logo" style="width: 234px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width200" id="i_logo">
<img src="images/i_logo.jpg" width="234" height="209" alt="logo">
</figure>
@@ -894,7 +898,7 @@ you see him he looks at least six times as high as he is broad.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i001" style="width: 1400px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i001">
<img src="images/i001.jpg" width="1400" height="996" alt="Three man of varying heights, each standing next to a vertical measuring stick. The measuring sticks are marked with numbers, representing units of height, and each man is dressed in a suit with a vest and tie.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>THE MEASURE OF A MAN</p>
@@ -1175,7 +1179,7 @@ two-dimensional projection of a solid.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i003" style="width: 1798px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i003">
<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="1798" height="1672" alt="The best way to get an idea of the construction of a cubical solid in
four dimensions is to draw a diagram yourself and trace out in turn
each of the eight cubes that inclose it.">
@@ -1244,7 +1248,7 @@ four-dimensional figure.</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i004" style="width: 1190px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i004">
<img src="images/i004.jpg" width="1190" height="1184" alt="A four-dimensional cube-like solid if transparent and looked at
with one eye would appear something like this picture.">
<figcaption class="caption">
@@ -1337,7 +1341,7 @@ of his story was that his heart beat on the right side and he was left
handed and otherwise reversed in a way that would be impossible in a
space of three dimensions.</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i005a" style="width: 1673px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i005a">
<img src="images/i005a.jpg" width="1673" height="808" alt="In space of three dimensions we cannot make a right hand glove and
a left hand glove look the same no matter how we turn them around.">
<figcaption class="caption">
@@ -1349,7 +1353,7 @@ lining now appears on the outside.</p>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i005b" style="width: 1193px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i005b">
<img src="images/i005b.jpg" width="1193" height="784" alt="Our two hands cannot be turned inside out so as to look the same in
three dimensions.">
<figcaption class="caption">
@@ -1390,7 +1394,7 @@ the “level” land and water he would, much to his surprise, come back to
his starting point which he had left 25,000 miles behind him.</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i006" style="width: 1776px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i006">
<img src="images/i006.jpg" width="1776" height="1110" alt="By movement in one dimension we cannot make a pair of lines
coincide for if we drag the second one straight
on to first one since the ends will not match.">
@@ -1405,7 +1409,7 @@ letters correspond.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i007" style="width: 1111px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i007">
<img src="images/i007.jpg" width="1111" height="1911" alt="In space of two dimensions, we
cannot bring two triangles shown in the image into the same position.">
<figcaption class="caption">
@@ -1425,7 +1429,7 @@ lay it by the side of the other and they will match perfectly.</p>
<p class="nindc space-above2">
A WORM’S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i008" style="width: 400px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i008">
<img src="images/i008.jpg" width="400" height="493" alt="fHow to measure a distance from two points in a triangle.">
</figure>
@@ -1954,7 +1958,7 @@ at call.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009a" style="width: 1818px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009a">
<img src="images/i009a.jpg" width="1818" height="379" alt="A string displayed in one dimension.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>In space of one dimension (a straight line) there could be neither
@@ -1962,7 +1966,7 @@ bend, loop nor knot in a string.</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009b" style="width: 1280px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009b">
<img src="images/i009b.jpg" width="1280" height="332" alt="A string displayed in two dimensions.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>In space of two dimensions (a flat surface) a double bend could be
@@ -1970,7 +1974,7 @@ made in the string but no loop or knot could be made.</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009c" style="width: 1214px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009c">
<img src="images/i009c.jpg" width="1214" height="263" alt="A string displayed in three dimensions.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>But if we raise one string (into the third dimension) and lay it
@@ -1978,14 +1982,14 @@ over the other like this:</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009d" style="width: 1166px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009d">
<img src="images/i009d.jpg" width="1166" height="265" alt="A string displayed with a loop.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>We get a loop but cannot form a knot without using the ends.</p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009e" style="width: 1606px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i009e">
<img src="images/i009e.jpg" width="1606" height="322" alt="A possibitily of having a string displayed in four dimensions.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>A knot like this cannot be made in a string so long as the ends are
@@ -2076,7 +2080,7 @@ did, he would not see it, for, owing to the forward motion of the
earth, the telescope moves out of range of the rays that otherwise
would have reached it.</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i010" style="width: 1049px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i010">
<img src="images/i010.jpg" width="1049" height="595" alt="How ray of light is bent out of its straight
course as it passes from the air into a denser medium like water or
glass.">
@@ -2197,7 +2201,7 @@ This deflection of a beam of light by gravity is extremely small, but
photographs taken during the recent total eclipse of the sun show that
star beams that passed near the sun are bent out of a straight path.</p>
-<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i011" style="width: 1795px;">
+<figure class="figcenter width500" id="i011">
<img src="images/i011.jpg" width="1795" height="379" alt="The eclipse observations.">
<figcaption class="caption">
<p>The eclipse expedition found that the stars seen about the sun