You wrote
> A number of physicists tried to do something along these lines.
> I believe one of these was Philip Bridgman (if Philip was his
> first name -- Bridgman, anyway).
P.W. Bridgman's first name is Percy, isn't it?
See, for example
THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL REALITY, 1936, Princeton (reprint: Dover)
I also own a Routledge Paperback that cost 7s 8d, which is called on the
cover
A GUIDE TO RELATIVITY,
but inside it is called
A SOPHISTICATE'S PRIMER OF RELATIVITY, copyright 1963, Wesleyan
Univ, Routledge, 1963
Best wishes,
Sam Kutler