It is shown that, contrary to what several authors have claimed, Einstein’s first derivation of the mass–energy equivalence was logically sound, the alleged fallacy lying merely in the fact that Einstein’s conclusion is entailedby, and is therefore anecessarycondition of his premises. (AIP)

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