Ether used "viewpoints" to relativist information in publications. However a great deal of information is shared across viewpoints. So Ether made use of "inheritance" so that information in a viewpoint could be readily used in other viewpoints. Sometimes this inheritance is not exact as when the laws of physics in Newtonian mechanics are derived from those of Special Relativity. In such cases Ether used "translation" instead of inheritance. Bruno Latour has analyzed translation in scientific communities in the context of actor network theory. Imre Lakatos studied very sophisticated kinds of translations of mathematical ("e.g.", the Euler formula for polyhedra) and scientific theories.