Nineteenth-century aether theories

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schaffner Kenneth F.
Published: Pergamon Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford
Publication Dates: [1972]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics
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Carrier Form: ix, 278 p.: ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 0080156746
0080156738 (pbk)
Index Number: N02
CLC: N02
Call Number: N02/S296/
Contents: Bibliography: p. 118-121.
Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François 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.