1. For an attempt to capture this feature in the development of general relativity, seeRay C 1987 Relativity-dead or alive? The Evolution of Relativity (Bristol: Adam Hilger) ch 6.
2. Originally, Einstein only referred to the principle of relativity. `Theory of relativity' is a term first used by others and the prefix `special' was added by Einstein after he had generalized his original theory. SeeEinstein A 1989 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein vol 2. The Swiss Years: Writings 2901-2909 (Princeton:Princeton University Press)p254
3. For Einstein's distinction between constructive theories, which we call dynamical, and theories of principle, which in the case of the special theory we call kinematical, seeEinstein A 1989 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein vol 2. The Swiss Years: Writings 1901-1909 (Princeton: Princeton University Press)p xxi, note28.
4. The ten parameters represent the homogeneity and isotropy of space and the homogeneity of time relative to each inertial frame, and the equivalence of all inertial frames. As emphasized by Felix Klein in 1872, a geometry is characterized by its symmetry group. See, for example, Torretti R 1978 Philosophy of Geometyfrom Riemann to Poincart? (Dordrecht: Reidel)pp137-142; 1983 Relativity and Geomety (Oxford: Pergamon) pp26-27