Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories

ContentsPreface Part 1 I. Introduction : the Functions of the Aether II. The Historical Background of the Nineteenth-century Aether through Young and Fresnel III. Aberration from Bradley to Michelson and Morley IV. The Elastic Solid Aether V. The Electromagnetic Aether VI. Lorentz' Aether and the Electron Theory: the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies References Part 2 1. Letter from Augustin Fresnel to Francois Arago, On the Influence of the Movement of the Earth on Some Phenomena of Optics 2. On the Aberration of Light 3. On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Aether 4. On the Laws of the Reflexion and Refraction of Light at the Common Surface of Two Non-crystallized Media 5. An Essay Towards a Dynamical Theory of Crystalline Reflexion and Refraction (Sections I and III) 6. On a Gyrostatic Adynamic Constitution for 'Ether' 7. On the Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection and Refraction of Light (an extract) 8. The Rotational Ether in its Application to Electromagnetism 9. Aether and Matter (sections 49-54, 102-16) 10. An Inquiry into Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies (Introduction) 11. Simplified Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving SystemsIndex