Nineteenth-century aether theories
By: by Kenneth F. Schaffner.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The Commonwealth and international library. Selected readings in physics
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Ether (Space)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 118-121.
Table of contents: title: Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics.; title: On the aberration of light, by G. G. Stokes.; title: On the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether, by A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley.; title: On the laws of the reflexion and refraction of light at the common surface of two non-crystallized media, by G. Green.; title: An essay towards a dynamical theory of crystalline reflexion and refraction (sections 1 and 3) by J. MacCullagh.; title: On a gyrostatic adynamic constitution for ether, by  W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin).; title: On the electromagnetic theory of the reflection and refraction of light (an extract) by G. F. Fitzgerald.; title: The rotational ether in its application to electromagnetism, by O. Heaviside.; title: Aether and matter (sections 49-54, 102-116), by J. Larmor.; title: An inquiry into electrical and optical phenomena in moving bodies (introduction) by H. A. Lorentz.; title: Simplified theory of electrical and optical phenomena in moving systems, by H. A. Lorentz.