L’elettrodinamica dei corpi in movimento e i libri di testo: riflessioni sul significato culturale dell’insegnamento della relatività

Textbooks are the result of the author’s specific scientific, epistemological, educational choices. Original memories can help teachers and students to elicit the roots of the authors’ choices and their peculiarities with respect to other possible choices. The issue is discussed by re-constructing the historical-epistemological roots of the most popular approaches to teaching Special Relativity through a careful analysis of the original papers by Einstein and Minkowski.