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Isomerism caused much consternation to early researchers, since isomers have exact the same composition, but differ in configuration (arrangement) of the atoms. For example, there was much speculation for the chemical identity of benzene, until the correct structure was described by Friedrich August Kekulé. Likewise, the idea of stereoisomerism - that atoms have rigid three-dimensional structure and can thus form isomers that differ only in their three-dimensional arrangement - was another crucial step in understanding the concept of distinct chemical substances. For example, tartaric acid has three distinct isomers, a pair of diastereomers with one diastereomer forming two enantiomers | The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Theory of the Relativity of Motion by Richard Chace Tolman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Theory of the Relativity of Motion Author Richard Chace Tolman Release Date June 17 2010 EBook 32857 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE THEORY OF THE RELATIVITY Produced by Andrew D. Hwang Berj Zamanian Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images from the Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs collection. transcriber s note Minor typographical corrections and presentational changes have been made without comment. This PDF file is formatted for screen viewing but may be easily formatted for printing. Please consult the preamble of the LM . X source file for instructions. THE THEORY OF THE RELATIVITY OF MOTION BY RICHARD C. TOLMAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY .