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(1986) Frontiers of physics: 1900–1911, Basel, Birkhäuser.
Mach’s weakness, as I see it, lies in the fact that he believed more or less strongly, that science consists merely of putting experimental results in order; that is, he did not recognize the free constructive element in the creation of a concept. He thought that somehow theories arise by means of discovery [durch Entdeckung] and not by means of invention [nicht durch Erfindung]. (1972, p. 391, italics in original).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0548-4_4
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Miller, A. I. (1986). On Einstein's invention of special relativity, in Frontiers of physics: 1900–1911, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 191-216.