“The word postulate of relativity… appears to me very stale… I should rather like to give this statement the name Postulate of the absolute world”

or briefly, world-postulate
Space and Time (1909), Tr. Ganesh Prasad in: Bulletin of the Calcutta

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German mathematician and physicist 1864–1909

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