Pith Number

pith:NWNMW6J3

pith:2017:NWNMW6J3XO6FVNBYN4PXAVG6T3

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A Brief Comment on Maxwell(/Newton)[-Huygens] Spacetime

James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1707.02393 v1 · 2017-07-08 · physics.hist-ph · physics.class-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NWNMW6J3XO6FVNBYN4PXAVG6T3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:39.308165Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d9acb793bbbbc5ab4386f1f7054de9ed1fe8ab1339fa4a5c45e239bf02e8933

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02393 · arxiv_version: 1707.02393v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02393 · pith_short_12: NWNMW6J3XO6F · pith_short_16: NWNMW6J3XO6FVNBY · pith_short_8: NWNMW6J3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NWNMW6J3XO6FVNBYN4PXAVG6T3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6d9acb793bbbbc5ab4386f1f7054de9ed1fe8ab1339fa4a5c45e239bf02e8933

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bc6e6619506a4ba13640a1e7ff404a0c4fc5b8413b03b62ba66397212e5dcb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.class-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-08T04:26:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f7b1a149a0fb9489f1c43d5285377ecf01ac6c9da1971f6f465c1bc77855d0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02393",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}