Einstein undertook writing his paper on special relativity in response to the CRISIS that emerged in physics when trying to do mechanics for fast-moving bodies in the light (pun intended) of Maxwell's equations that gave rise to some weird problems with Newtonian mechanics.
Could you please recommend a good book or book chapter that covers every detail of this CRISIS and explains it lucidly at an undergraduate level? I know there is an attempt here but it was not rigorous.
