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-1- Rev. Dec. 13,. Jan 17, 2004; December 1; November 29, 2003 Einstein s Special Theory of Relativity and the Problems in the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies that Led him to it. John D. Norton1 Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 Prepared for Cambridge Companion to Einstein, M. Janssen and C. Lehner, eds., Cambridge University Press. Typesetter: the figures embedded here are lower resolution tif images. The original figures were drawn using a vector graphics program (Canvas 9) and should be printed from vector graphic files, epsf. 1. Introduction Modern readers turning to Einstein s famous 1905 paper on Special Relativity may not find what they expect.
-2- physics. As the first of the modern theories, it provides the foundation for particle physics and for Einstein’s general theory of relativity; and it is the last point of
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