1. * Seirei Christopher College, 3453 Mikatahara-Town Hamamatsu-City, 433-8558, Japan; abiko@ceres.dti.ne.jp.
2. The following abbreviations are used: AEPS, P.A. Schilpp ed., Albert Einstein, philosopher-scientist (Evanston, 1949; New York, 1951; La Salle, 1969); AJP, American journal of physics; AP, Annalen der Physik; BJPS, British journal for philosophy of science; CPEE, The collected papers of Albert Einstein, English translation (Princeton, 1987-); LCP, Hendrik A. Lorentz, Collected papers (9 vols., The Hague, 1934-1939); Letters, Jurgen Renn and Robert Schulmann, eds., Albert Einstein-Mileva Maric, love letters (Princeton, 1992); Origins, Gerald Holton, Thematic origins of scientific thought (Cambridge, 1973); PR, The principles of relativity (London, 1923, reprint New York, 1952); PS, Philosophy of science; VPG, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Verhandlungen.
3. HSPS, Volume 33, Part 2, pages 193-215. ISSN 0890-9997. c2003 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, 2000 Center St., Ste. 303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223.
4. 1 SOME CONTROVERSIAL POSITIONS ON THE HISTORY OF STR Whittaker's
5. 1 Hendrik A. Lorentz himself regarded Einstein as the discoverer of the principle of relativity and held to the ideas of absolute space and time to the end of his life.