Introduction

pp. 253-293

in: Arthur I. Miller, Frontiers of physics: 1900–1911, Basel, Birkhäuser, 1986

Abstract

Percy W. Bridgman wrote A Sophisticate's Primer (1962) for the reader "who feels the need to stand back a little for a critical scrutiny of what he has really got" (SP, p. 3).* This was his personal trademark as physicist and philosopher and it is present everywhere in Bridgman's précis of special relativity theory.