arXiv:2510.17838v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work offers a historical reading of the genesis of special relativity by placing the contributions of Lorentz, Poincare, and Einstein within their scientific and editorial context. It highlights the importance of the German periodical Beiblatter zu den Annalen der Physik as a key channel for the dissemination of international scientific research. The perspective advanced here is that the true revolution did not lie in special relativity itself, but in Maxwell’s electrodynamics. Special relativity thus appears as the necessary expression of a framework already transformed by the universality of the speed of light.