A brief comment on Maxwell[-Huygens] spacetime

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 63:34-38 (2018)
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I provide an alternative characterization of a "standard of rotation" in the context of classical spacetime structure that does not refer to any covariant derivative operator.

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10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.10.001

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