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Here is the German
In The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 2, this is translated as
In particular, in the original German we have "relativ zueinander" which translates to "relative to each other".
The English translation found in the book The Principle of Relativity does not contain the phrase "relative to each other".
Another English translation is found in Arthur I. Miller's book Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity:
"The laws by which the states of physical systems undergo changes are independent of whether these changes of state are referred to one or the other of two coordinate systems moving relative to each other in uniform translational motion."
In The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 2, this is translated as
In particular, in the original German we have "relativ zueinander" which translates to "relative to each other".
The English translation found in the book The Principle of Relativity does not contain the phrase "relative to each other".
Another English translation is found in Arthur I. Miller's book Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity:
"The laws by which the states of physical systems undergo changes are independent of whether these changes of state are referred to one or the other of two coordinate systems moving relative to each other in uniform translational motion."
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