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    REFERENCES

    Introductory quote: A. Sommerfeld, Natumissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 1, pages 97-100, reprinted in Gesammelte Schriften (Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1968), Volume IV, pages 640-643.

    Galileo quote, Section 3.1: Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Ptolemaic and Copernican, first published February 1632; the translation quoted here is by Stillman Drake (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962), pages 186ff. Galileo’s writings, along with those of Dante, by reason of their strength and aptness, are treasures of human thought, studied today in Italy by secondary school students as part of a great literary heritage.

    Einstein quote, Box 3-1: Albert Einstein, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," Annalen der Physik, Volume 17, pages 891-921 (1905), translated by Arthur I. Miller in Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (AddisonWesley, Reading, Mass., 1981), page 392.

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    The idea for Box 3-1 was suggested by Kenneth L. Laws. Box 3-4 and the argument for Section 3.6, Invariance of Transverse Dimension, is adapted from material by William A. Shurcliff, private communications. Sample Problem 3-2 is adapted from A. P. French, Special Relativity (W. W. Norton, New York, 1968), page 121,

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