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- From: davidc@panix.com (David C. Chorlian)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: The Lorentz transformation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.033755.25349@panix.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 03:37:55 GMT
- References: <Bs7JFz.Ewq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In <Bs7JFz.Ewq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
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- > Some recent posts have suggested Poincare had the Lorentz transform
- >equations. I don't know about this, but there's a book by O'Rahilly
- >called Electromagnetics or Electromagnetic Theory which refers to
- >special relativity as ``Einstein's use of Voigt's tranformation.''
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- Pais, in "Subtle is the Lord..." notes that in 1887 Voigt had
- what was in essence the Lorentz transformation (as it is called
- today). Lorentz refers to Voigt in a Columbia U lecture of 1906.
- Poincare published two papers in 1905 which have the Lorentz
- transformations worked out in full.
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- David B. Chorlian
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