History of Special Relativity

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A timeline of the major developments in relativity. It starts with Galilean Relativity via Newton and ends with General Relativity.

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/relativity/history-1...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Relativity - Galilean Relativity - General Relativity - Reference Frames - Special Relativity	- Informal Education	- Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2009 Nobel Foundation
Keywords:: galilean relativity, general relativity, history, special relativity
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 12, 2009 by Gregory Comer
Record Updated:: May 22, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Other Collections:: The Spacetime Emporium

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History of Special Relativity. (2009). Retrieved June 8, 2025, from Nobel Foundation: http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/relativity/history-1.html

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