Advent Of Relativity, TheThis popular book on special relativity was first published in Moscow back in 1961 under the Russian title '?????????? ???, ??? ????????????', which can be roughly translated as 'Is it evident? No, it's unexplored yet!'This clear exposition of the history of the development of physical ideas which eventually led to the discovery of special relativity is a narration of how physicists, from Galileo, Newton to Lorentz, Poincare and Einstein were