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Work published in 1917, a few years before Albert Einstein (1879-1955) definitively established the famous field equations of general relativity, "On the theory of special and general relativity" it is proposed "to give an idea as exact as possible of the theory of relativity, thinking of those who, without mastering the mathematical section of theoretical physics, have an interest in the theory from a general scientific or philosophical point of view . This edition, which incorporates an analytical index, includes as an appendix a simple derivation of the Lorentz transformation and a discussion of the four-dimensional Minkowski formulation. About the Author: Albert Einstein (1879-1955). In 1905 he published a series of works in which, among other things, he exposed his revolutionary theory of special relativity, a determining factor in twentieth-century physics. Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, before the rise of Nazism he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and settle in the United States. Until his death in 1955, Einstein stood out for his active fight against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.