Comments on Weinstein's comments arXiv: 2509.09361 & 2510.03793
Jean-Marc Ginoux
TL;DR
This paper delivers a pointed rebuttal to Galina Weinstein's arXiv comments on Ginoux s history of special relativity, arguing that Weinstein relies on selective textual evidence and revisits preexisting work rather than offering genuine novelty. It contends that Lorentz and Poincaré developed a complete Lorentz transformation and invariance prior to Einstein, while Einstein reframed the results within a two postulate framework, and that proper historiography must balance formal derivations with the conceptual shifts. By invoking primary sources and prior scholarship (eg, Ginoux2024, Miller 1973–2001), the author defends attribution to Poincaré and Lorentz alongside Einstein and cautions against conflating coincidental textual echoes with authorship. The work thus clarifies the historical sequence in the development of special relativity and underscores the importance of documentary evidence in distinguishing mathematical structure from conceptual interpretation, with implications for accurate attribution in the history of science.
Abstract
In 2024, after thirty years of research on this subject, I published a book entitled: \textit{Poincaré, Einstein and the discovery of special relativity. An end to the controversy} \cite{Ginoux2024}. In September 2025, Galina Weinstein published a review of this book entitled: \textit{Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity} (arXiv:2509.09361) in which she harshly criticized my work in an unfair and error filled manner. The, she published a second comment (arXiv: 2510.03793) in which she added she added insults about me to all her mistakes, falsehoods and misleading criticisms. So I've decided to reply to her comments, in an academic way (as she would normally have done), in order to demonstrate that her allegedly ``novel way'' of reconstructing the history of the theory of special relativity is purely based on her own interpretation of the facts and not on the facts themselves. To this aim, I will follow the structure of each Weinstein's comment (arXiv: 2509.09361 \& 2510.03793) and I will highlight section by section all the erroneous things she has reported and repeated.