Special relativity crystallized from shared electrodynamic problems and the failure to detect ether motion rather than appearing as Einstein's sudden isolated creation.
Perspectives on Einstein's scientific works in Milan
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The Milanese period in Albert Einstein's life is a key one for the understanding of the development of his scientific questioning. While being a student in Z\"urich from 1896, Einstein returned regularly to Milan to meet his family for the holidays. There, he could work on the most recent articles in physics at the rich library of the Lombardo Institute, Academy of Sciences and Letters. Hopefully, this new perspective will help to trace back more accurately a few of Einstein's scientific ideas, such as the need to expand his first doctoral work on molecular forces to weakly compressed gases or as to conceive a first idea of light quanta.
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Lorentz, Poincare, Einstein, and the Genesis of the Theory of Special Relativity
Special relativity crystallized from shared electrodynamic problems and the failure to detect ether motion rather than appearing as Einstein's sudden isolated creation.