Poincare, Henri. "Sur la generalisation d'un theoreme elementaire de Geometrie." Paris: Academie des Sciences, 1905. 1st edition. Comptes Rendus, 16 January 1905 4to. Paper wrappers. Good condition, extracted from a larger bound volume, though the front wrapper is present. $350
Is this the real basis for Minkowski's construction of the 4-dimensions space-time structure? Something interesting to think about, for certain--only 6 months later would appear in these pages Poincare's "relativity" paper (1 June 1905, on the dynamics of an electron), which so many others have claimed to be the inspiration for the Einstein work on relativity.
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