Lorentz's approach to special relativity

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<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no,location=no, scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>\n\nLorentz (the well-known physicist of the Lorentz transformation)\nhad the habit of deriving special relativity, in his lectures and\nin his writings, from the principle\n\n"All speeds of matter and energy are smaller or equal to c"\n\n(Most modern texts use as principle\n"c is the same for all observers" )\n\nI read this in a text written by him many years ago, but do not have\nthe reference any more. Does anybody have an idea where I could\nfind the reference?\nThank you for any help!\n\nChristoph Schiller\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">  View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Lorentz (the well-known physicist of the Lorentz transformation)
had the habit of deriving special relativity, in his lectures and
in his writings, from the principle

"All speeds of matter and energy are smaller or equal to c"

(Most modern texts use as principle
"c is the same for all observers" )

I read this in a text written by him many years ago, but do not have
the reference any more. Does anybody have an idea where I could
find the reference?
Thank you for any help!

Christoph Schiller

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