title: Albert Einstein&rsquo;s Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation (1905&ndash;1911)
author:  Arthur I. Miller 
description: From reviews of the previous edition: "Miller has written a superb, perhaps definitive, historical study of Einsteins special theory of relativity.... One comes away from the book with a respect for both the creative genius of the man and his nerve: he simply brushed aside much of the work that was going on around him." - The New Yorker
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  A L B E R T E I N S T E I N
  
  
  S P E C I A L T H E O R Y
  
  
  OF R E L A T I V I T Y
  
  
  **Emergence (1905) and**
  
  
  **Early Interpretation (1905-1911)**
  
  
  Springer
  
  
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  This book analyzes one of the three great papers Einstein published in 1905,
  each of which would alter forever the field it dealt with. The second of these
  papers, “ On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” had an impact in a much
  broader field than electrodynamics: it established what Einstein sometimes
  referred to (after 1906) as the “so-called Theory of Relativity.” Miller uses
  the paper to provide a window into the intense intellectual struggles of
  physicists in the first decade of the twentieth century: the interplay between
  physical theory and empirical data, the fiercely held notions that could not
  be articulated clearly or verified experimentally, the great intellectual
  investme