“Many authors say that classical mechanics stand in opposition to the relativity postulate, which is taken to be the basic of the new Electro-dynamics”

The Fundamental Equations for Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies (1907)

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German mathematician and physicist 1864–1909

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