Albert Einstein has been and remains one of the most quoted scientists by prestigious scientific publications, but he is also a character who has received extensive coverage from the most diverse literature.

His theories became a coveted object in the midst of very diverse interests, not only scientific but also philosophical, religious, social, and political, some in favor, others against them.

Since 1919, his work spread around the world. Prestigious physicists such as Max Born, Moritz Schlick and Arthur S. Eddington were interested in making Einstein’s theories known to the general public. Aware of the difficulties of this endeavor, they reflected and wrote about them. For instance, in Spain, essential works for the dissemination of relativity, written in English, French and German were published in Spanish before Einstein’s visit. The translators were prestigious professors, such as philosophers Manuel García Morente and José Gaos, and physicist José María Plans, one of experts on the theories of relativity in Spain.

There were also some original works. Physicist Blas Cabrera published Principio de Relatividad. Sus fundamentos experimentales y filosóficos y su evolución histórica, in 1923, a collection of his lecturers on Einstein’s theories.  Others publishing houses such as the Biblioteca de Ideas del Siglo XX, directed by José Ortega y Gasset, the Biblioteca, Contemporánea de Ciencias (Editorial Calpe), directed by mathematician Esteban Terradas,  Revista de Occidente, and  the Residencia de Estudiantes also published works on relativity.