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In the British journal Nature, Shankland gave the historical background of how Einstein formulates the first two principles, in 1905, of the special theory of relativity from the Michelson-Morley experiment.
In 1910, following a 1909 publication of Sommerfeld, he applied hyperbolic geometry to the special theory of relativity.