10. Darboux, “Eloge historique” [1913], lxvii.
11. Poincaré, “Space and Time” (1963), 18 and 23.
12. Ibid., 24.
13. Poincaré, “Moral Alliance,” Last Essays (1963), 114–17, on 114, 117; on the last days of Poincaré, Darboux, “Éloge” (1916). See the excellent discussion of Poincaré’s political engagement in Laurent Rollet, Henri Poincaré. Des Mathématiques à la Philosophie. Étude du parcours intellectuel, social et politique d’un mathématicien au début du siècle, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Nancy 2, 1999, esp. 283–84.
14. “Discours du Prince Louis de Broglie” (1955), 66.
15. Poincaré, Foundations of Science (1982), 352 (translation slightly modified).
16. Ibid., 232.
17. Sherman, Telling Time (1996).
18. “Lettre de M. Pierre Boutroux à M. Mittag-Leffler” [18 June 1913], in Poincaré, Oeuvres, vol. 11 (1956), 150.
19. Both quotations, cf. Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (1954), 274.
20. Einstein about the religious spirit of science in Mein Weltbild [1934], reprinted in idem, Ideas and Opinions (1954), 40.
21. Editors’ introduction to vol. 2, Einstein, Collected Papers, xxv–xxvi.
22. Einstein to Schlick, 21 May 1917, Collected Papers (Translation), vol. 8, 333. Also as Holton has argued in Thematic Origins (1973) that Einstein’s emphasis on metaphysics changed over time.
23. Favarger, L’Électricité (1924), 10.
24. Ibid., 11.
25. Representations of Einstein’s relativity as a culmination of increasingly accurate “no-aether” measurements are rife; perhaps the most scholarly attempt to locate Einstein’s formulation as a mere variant of the early aether-electron theories is to be found in Edmund Whittaker, History of the Theories of Aether (1987), 40, where the chapter “The Relativity Theory of Poincaré and Lorentz” includes the remark: “Einstein published a paper [in 1905] which set forth the relativity theory of Poincaré and Lorentz with some amplifications, and which attracted much attention. He asserted as a fundamental principle the constancy of the speed of light . . . which at the time was widely accepted, but has been severely criticized by later writers.” See Holton, Thematic Origins (1973), esp. ch. 5 and Miller, Einstein’s Relativity (1981).
26. Schaffer, “Late Victorian metrology” (1992), 23–49; Wise, “Mediating Machines” (1988); Galison, Image and Logic (1997).
27. Einstein to Solovine, Princeton, 3 April 1953, in Einstein, Letters to Solovine (1987), 143; translation corrected.
28. Einstein to the son and sister of Michele Besso, 21 March 1955, Albert Einstein Michele Besso Correspondance (1972), 537–39.
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