Original sentence: As a result the correctness of special relativity has come, over time, to be largely taken for granted in the scientific community.However, the self-consistency of special relativity was proven in 1908 by Minkowski, and it has been supported by an ever-increasing body of confirmatory experimental evidence.Special relativity at first met with disdain and even ridicule from some quarters since it abounds with apparent paradoxes, and violates "common sense".The last two papers appear in The Principle of Relativity, London: Methuen and Company, Ltd.The theory came to be called the "special theory of relativity" to distinguish it from his later general theory of relativity, which considers all observers to be equivalent
Edited sentence: The theory abounded with paradoxes, and violated "common sense", landing Einstein substantial ridicule from some quarters, but was quickly adopted by academia.The theory came to be called the "special theory of relativity" to distinguish it from his later theory of general relativity, which considers all observers to be equivalent.These papers appeared in The Principle of Relativity, London: Methuen and Company, Ltd