From: Peter Webb on

"Me, ...again!" <arthures(a)mv.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.61.1006162238180.2355(a)osmium.mv.net...
>
> Earlier this evening I went to that URL you gave below, did a copy to my
> HD and will have a more detailed look later. Its a translation of a quite
> old paper (1918), which seems early in the overall "debating" that had
> gone
> on for decades (or whatever). I did skim over it once, but need to just
> read
> slowly once and get the gist. I think I'll look at that Einstein book
> (maybe
> it is a reprint of much earlier work, and less worth it to me because of
> that), but I'd wish more for a fairly good, recent overview _review_ paper
> or chapter that covers the scrutiny that E/R got over all the decades,
> including the experimental work and experiment design.
>

For SR,
http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html
provides an excellent summary with references to the original papers.

HTH

Peter Webb