Albert Einstein's 1905 paper on the principle of relativity did not contain a single reference to his sources, which was quite unusual given that he did not create the special theory of relativity. Instead, Einstein clearly copied the special theory of relativity from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. Poincaré strongly resented the direct, nearly verbatim plagiarism and largely shunned Einstein, but Lorentz took advantage of it as an opportunity to promote himself and his political causes. Surprisingly, Einstein initially rejected the space-time theories of Melchior Palagyi, Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski and harshly criticized their concept of space-time. He had to be persuaded of their worth before he hesitantly adopted these already fully developed theories years later. Space-time theories have been quite common in folklore, philosophy, mathematics, religion, science, science fiction, psychology, and are even inherent in some languages. The first two chapters provide a thorough documentation of the evolution and completion of the four-dimensional special theory of relativity before Albert Einstein reiterated the same equations and concepts after first rejecting them. The relevant portions of the books and papers of Einstein's predecessors are republished in the original English, French, German and Italian. Travel through thousands of years to discover the revolutionary space-time theories of Einstein's predecessors and sources, including the relevant works of Henry More, Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Thomas Reid, Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Georg Simon Klügel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, William Rowan Hamilton, Eugen Karl Dühring, Woldemar Voigt, Henri Bergson, Rudolf Mewes, H. G. Wells, James H. Hyslop, G. F. Fitzgerald, Joseph Larmor, H. A. Lorentz, Melchior Palágyi, George Stuart Fullerton, Henri Poincaré, Rudolf Mehmke, Paul Langevin, Roberto Marcolongo, Lady Victoria Welby, R. Hargreaves and Hermann Minkowski.
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