Chapter 1

  1. H. H. Dale, An Autumn Flowering (Pergamon Press, 1954, p. 81).
  2. H. Dingle, Science and Human Experience (Williams & Norgate, 1931, p. 44).
  3. 0. Bilaniuk and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Physics Today, May, 1969,p.43.
  4. H. Dingle, Definitions and Realities, The Listener, July 3, 1969.

Chapter 2

  1. H. Dingle, Nature, 177, 782 (1956).
  2. H. Dingle, Bull. Inst. Phys., December 1958, p. 314.
  3. H. Dingle, Science Progress, 48, 201 (1960).
  4. H. Dingle, Philosophy of Science, 27, 233 (1960).
  5. H. Dingle, Brit. fourn. Phil. Sci., 11, 11 (1960).
  6. H. Samuel and H. Dingle, A Threefold Cord (Alien & Unwin, 1961).
  7. H. Dingle, Nature, 195, 985 (1962).
  8. Nature, 197, 1248, 1287(1963).
  9. A. Einstein, Ann. d. Phys., 17, 891 (1905). (All quotations from this paper throughout the book are from the English translation appearing in The Principle of Relativity by Einstein and Others (Methuen, 1923).

Chapter 3

  1. References 4, 6, 7 to Chapter 2.
  2. Nature, 197, 1287 (1963).
  3. Nature, 179, 1242(1957).
  4. Nature, 180,499(1957).
  5. Reference 6 to Chapter 2, pp. 79, 8o.
  6. Discovery, 18, 174 (1957); Science, 127, 158 (1958); New Scientist, August 24, 1961.
  7. e.g. Daily Herald, August 15, 1962, and a broadcast in ‘Radio newsreel’, September 2, 1962.
  8. H. Arzelies, Relativite Generalisee Gravitation, xxxii (Gauthier-Villars, 1961).
  9. C. R. Weld, A History of the Royal Society (1848). Vol. 1, p. 146.

Chapter 4

  1. G. Temple, Turning Points in Physics (North Holland Publishing Co., 1959, p. 76).
  2. J. L. Synge, Nature, 219, 790 (1968).
  3. A. Einstein and L. Infeld, The Evolution of Physics (Camb. Univ. Press, 1938, p. 191).
  4. J. M. Ziman, The Advancement of Science, 27 (1970-71).

Chapter 5

    1. A. Einstein, The Theory of Relativity (Methuen, 1920, p. 44).

Chapter 6

  1. Viscount Samuel, Essay in Physics (Blackwell, 1951, p. 141).
  2. E. A. Milne, e.g. Relativity, Gravitation and World-Structure (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935).
  3. E. A. Milne, Nature, April 28, 1945, p. 512.
  4. e.g. H. Bondi, Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory (Camb. Univ. Press, 1967).
  5. A. N. Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (Williams & Norgate, Home University Library, no date given, p. 61).
  6. F. Hoyle, the Observer, January 8,1961.
  7. J. C. Maxwell, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, Phil. Trans. 155,459 (1865).
  8. Quoted by Silvanus P. Thompson in Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (Macmillan, 1910, p. 836).
  9. H. Hertz, Electric Waves (English translation) (Macmillan, 1893,p.21).
  10. A. S. Eddington, The Mathematical Theory of Relativity (Camb. Univ. Press, 2nd edition, 1930).

Chapter 7

  1. A. Einstein, Reference 9 to Chapter 2.
  2. A. A. Michelson, Amer. Journ. Sci., 22,128 (i88i).
  3. See, for example, M. Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958, p. 10).
  4. W. Barrett, Nature, 216,524 (1967).
  5. A. Einstein, The Theory of Relativity (Methuen, 1920, p. 44).
  6. A. Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (Methuen, 4th edition, 1950, p. 27).

Chapter 8

  1. 0. J. Lodge, The Ether of Space (Harper, 1909, pp. 65-6).
  2. H. A. Lorentz, Proc. Amsterdam Acad., 6, 809 (1904).
  3. E. T. Whittaker, History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, (Vol. 2, 1953, Chap. 2).
  4. H. A. Lorentz, Astrophys. Journ., 68,350 (1928).
  5. W. Ritz, Ann. Chim. Phys; 13,145 (1908).
  6. H. Poincare, Dernieres Pensees (Flammarion, 1924, p. 217).
  7. M. Born, Physics and Relativity. Included in Jubilee of Relativity Theory, Berne, 11-16 July 1955. Edited by A. Mercier and M. Kervaire (Birkhauser Verlag Basel, 1956; pp. 244-60).
  8. L. T. More, The Metaphysical Tendencies of Modern Physics (Hibbert Journal, July 1910, p. 805).
  9. H. Minkowski, Space and Time. (Included in The Principle of Relativity — see Reference 9 to Chapter 2).
  10. P. Frank, Einstein, His Life and Times (Jonathan Cape, 1948,
  11. 31). 11. M. Born, Nature, 197, 1287(1963).
  12. A Einstein, Reference 9 to Chapter 2, p. 111.
  13. A. N. Whitehead, The Concept of Nature (Camb. Univ. Press, 1920, p.182).
  14. A. S. Eddington, Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation (Fleetway Press, 1918, p. 8).
  15. Nature, February 17, 1921.
  16. P. S. Epstein, Amer. Journ. Phys., August 1942, p. 207.

Chapter 9

  1. Reference 4 to Chapter 6, p. 43.
  2. Reference 9 to Chapter 2.
  3. A. S. Eddington, Space, Time and Gravitation (Camb. Univ. Press, 1920, Chapter 1).
  4. H. Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1965).
  5. Reference 6 to Chapter 2.
  6. Reference 4 to Chapter 6.
  7. Reference 7 to Chapter 8.
  8. e.g. Nature, 17, 1242 (1957).
  9. W. H. McCrea, Discovery, 18,174 (1957).
  10. H. Dingle, Proc. Phys. Soc., My, 925 (1956).
  11. A. Einstein, Naturwissenschaften, 6, 697 (1918).
  12. Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist (Library of Living Philosophers, ed. by P. A. Schilpp, 1949, p. 67).
  13. C. MШller, The Theory of Relativity (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952,p.258).

Chapter 10

  1. E. T. Whittaker, From Euclid to Eddington (Camb. Univ. Press, 1949, p. 59).
  2. Reference 3 to Chapter 9, Chapter 1.
  3. W. de Sitter, Proc. Amsterdam Acad., 15, 1297 (1913).
  4. H. Dingle, Man. Not. R.A.S., 119, 67 (1959).
  5. T. Alvager, A. Nilsson and J. Kjellman, Nature, 197, 1191 (1963).
  6. J. G. Fox, Amer. Journ. Phys., 30, 297 (1962).
  7. H. Dingle, Nature, 183, 1761 (1959).
  8. See The Observatory, 85, 262 (1965); 86, 165 (1966).
  9. F. Hoyle, Nature, 208, 113 (1965).