During a Junior Faculty Sabbatical at Wesleyan University, which Taylor spent at Princeton University, he collaborated with the relativist John Archibald Wheeler on an introductory text on special relativity, which began with Wheeler's relativity lectures to an honors physics freshman class, which Taylor transcribed, and evolved into an intense collaboration that resulted in the book Spacetime Physics, published in 1965.
[4] Taylor and Wheeler later resumed their collaboration to produce an introduction to general relativity, published in 2000 as Exploring Black Holes.
To this end, he co-developed software designed to help students understand the geometry and the effects of special relativity,[6] and taught an early online course offered by Montana State University.
[3] In 1998, Taylor received the Oersted Medal from the "For his profound contributions to the pedagogy of relativity and quantum mechanics, his service to the physics community as editor of the American Journal of Physics, and his pioneering efforts in the development of software for relativity, quantum mechanics, and Internet teaching.
A second edition of the general relativity text was prepared with Edmund Bertschinger, and is available only in online form for full and free download at exploringblackholes.org.