Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories

Content: 
Dedication, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
PREFACE, Pages vii-ix
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE AETHER, Pages 3-6
CHAPTER II - THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AETHER THROUGH YOUNG AND FRESNEL, Pages 7-19
CHAPTER III - ABERRATION FROM BRADLEY TO MICHELSON AND MORLEY, Pages 20-39
CHAPTER IV - THE ELASTIC SOLID AETHER, Pages 40-75
CHAPTER V - THE ELECTROMAGNETIC AETHER, Pages 76-98
CHAPTER VI - LORENTZ’ AETHER AND THE ELECTRON THEORY: THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES, Pages 99-117
1 - LETTER FROM AUGUSTIN FRESNEL TO FRANçOIS ARAGO, ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE EARTH ON SOME PHENOMENA OF OPTICS, Pages 125-135
2 - ON THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT, Pages 136-143
3 - ON THE RELATIVE MOTION OF THE EARTH AND THE LUMINIFEROUS æTHER, Pages 144-160
4 - ON THE LAWS OF THE REFLEXION AND REFRACTION OF LIGHT AT THE COMMON SURFACE OF TWO NON-CRYSTALLIZED MEDIA, Pages 161-186
5 - AN ESSAY TOWARDS A DYNAMICAL THEORY OF CRYSTALLINE REFLEXION AND REFRACTION, Pages 187-193
6 - ON A GYROSTATIC A DYNAMIC CONSTITUTION FOR ‘ETHER’, Pages 194-203
7 - ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF THE REFLECTION AND REFRACTION OF LIGHT, Pages 204-207
8 - THE ROTATIONAL ETHER IN ITS APPLICATION TO ELECTROMAGNETISM, Pages 208-212
9 - AETHER AND MATTER, Pages 213-246
10 - AN INQUIRY INTO ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PHENOMENA IN MOVING BODIES, Pages 247-254
11 - SIMPLIFIED THEORY OF ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PHENOMENA IN MOVING SYSTEMS, Pages 255-273
REFERENCES, Pages 118-121
INDEX, Pages 274-278