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Hi,
it's very interesting, that many parts of special relativity were developed before Einstein by Lorentz, Larmor and Poincaré. (Including relativity of simultaneity, synchronisation by light signals, group property of Lorentz Transformation, connection between mass and energy etc.) For example, I found much information at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory
However, why are those facts only known to historians of science and not mentioned in most physics-textbooks?
Regards,
it's very interesting, that many parts of special relativity were developed before Einstein by Lorentz, Larmor and Poincaré. (Including relativity of simultaneity, synchronisation by light signals, group property of Lorentz Transformation, connection between mass and energy etc.) For example, I found much information at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory
However, why are those facts only known to historians of science and not mentioned in most physics-textbooks?
Regards,
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