Unfortunately, we have no drafts by Einstein documenting the emergence of the special theory of relativity. But manuscripts and drafts by Hermann Minkowski reveal the startling and puzzling aspects of the innovative feature of the new conception of space and time. Minkowski who had been Einstein’s mathematics teacher in Zurich worked himself on relativistic electrodynamics in 1908. Drafts for a famous talk on `Space and Time’ reveal both a discovery process and also document how Minkowski communicated the new concepts to different audiences.

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