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Zahar’s (1978) rejoinder to Essay 5 is based on historical and scientific points that are substantively incorrect. I address this Postscript to these points, which also affords me the opportunity to enlarge on certain aspects of the reception of special relativity that are at times misunderstood.
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Miller, A.I. (1986). Postscript: Further Comments on what Einstein, Lorentz, Planck, and Poincaré Did — circa 1905. In: Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0548-4_6
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