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Scientific Paper
Title Special Relativity as an Evolution of Classical Physics
Author(s) Giuseppe Antoni
Keywords {{{keywords}}}
Published 1989
Journal None
No. of pages 7
Pages 1-7

Abstract

Einstein arrived to the Special Theory of Relativity by basing it on the principle of relativity, which he extended to electro-magnetic phenomena, and on the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light.  Starting from these presuppositions, he arrived on the following well-known formulae of Lorentz, which had already been obtained by Poincare in the theory of the fixed ether.