In recent years, the library of our natural history lovers has been enriched, without exaggeration, with many first-class books on the theory of relativity - from special monographs and textbooks (V. A. Fock, A. 3. Petrov, J. Sing, J. Weber) to publicly available statements (JI. D. Landau and Yu. B. Rumer, A. 3. Petrov, K. Dyorell, etc.) * Looking at the cover of this book by M. Bourne, the reader may not resist skeptical surprise: "How?! Relativity again? And again it is popular, in other words, another statement of what many and many authors have already written about in one way or another?" However, the table of contents of this book will surprise the reader of a different kind: "Is this only the theory of relativity? After all, out of seven chapters - only two about the theory of relativity?!" - Indeed, this book is not just about the theory of relativity. Max Born talks in it about all physics, about how physical science came to the discovery of a theory that has become, next to quantum and statistical theories, the basis of the physics of our century and the beginning of the science of the future.