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Space and Time

Space and Time
Hermann Minkowski Original title Raum und Zeit (German, 1909)

This is the first publication (in German or English) of Hermann Minkowski's three papers on relativity together: The Relativity Principle - lecture given at the meeting of the Göttingen Mathematical Society on November 5, 1907. This is the first English translation. The Fundamental Equations for Electromagnetic Processes in Moving Bodies - lecture given at the meeting of the Göttingen Scientific Society on December 21, 1907. New translation. Space and Time - lecture given at the 80th Meeting of Natural Scientists in Cologne on September 21, 1908. New translation.


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“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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