Nineteenth-century aether theories,
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Oxford, New York,
Pergamon Press
[1972]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.] |
| Series: | The Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics
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Table of Contents:
- Letter from Augustin Fresnel to Francois Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics
- On the aberration of light, by G. G. Stokes
- On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether, by A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley
- On the laws of the reflexion and refraction of light at the common surface of two non-crystallized media, by G. Green
- An essay towards a dynamical theory of crystalline reflexion and refraction (sections 1 and 3) by J. MacCullagh
- On a gyrostatic adynamic constitution for ether, by W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
- On the electromagnetic theory of the reflection and refraction of light (an extract) by G. F. Fitzgerald
- The rotational ether in its application to electromagnetism, by O. Heaviside
- Aether and matter (sections 49-54, 102-116), by J. Larmor
- An inquiry into electrical and optical phenomena in moving bodies (introduction) by H. A. Lorentz
- Simplified theory of electrical and optical phenomena in moving systems, by H. A. Lorentz.