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IN his recent James Scott Lecture, delivered before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on "The Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy" (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 62, Pt. 1, No. 2. Pp. 10–24. 1s. 3d.), Prof. E. A. Milne gave a comprehensive sketch of the theory of kinematical relativity which, with his collaborators, he has been developing during the last dozen years. The lecture contained no essentially new material, but it gave a very useful summary of the scope of the theory, with attention concentrated on the fundamental ideas, and its appearance marks a suitable occasion for forming an estimate of the significance of this new approach to the basic problems of natural philosophy.
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DINGLE, H. Fundamental Concepts of Natural Philosophy. Nature 153, 304–306 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153304a0
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