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Overturn and continuity of the hypotheses in the framing of the theory of relativity

An attempt at reconstructing the transition from classical to relativistic physics

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  1. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

    Asaria Polikarov

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H. Nelkowski A. Hermann H. Poser R. Schrader R. Seiler

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Polikarov, A. (1979). Overturn and continuity of the hypotheses in the framing of the theory of relativity. In: Nelkowski, H., Hermann, A., Poser, H., Schrader, R., Seiler, R. (eds) Einstein Symposion Berlin. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09718-X_85

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