Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether

Ninety five years before special relativity was born, Arago attempted to detect the absolute motion of the Earth by measuring the deflection of starlight passing through a prism fixed to the Earth. The null result of this experiment gave rise to Fresnel's hypothesis of an ether partly dragged b...

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Publicado: 2005
Materias:
Earth (planet)
Lenses
Light velocity
Mathematical models
Optical telescopes
Prisms
Refractive index
Wavefronts
Fresnel hypothesis
Lumiferous ether
Relativity
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01430807_v26_n1_p195_Ferraro
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01430807_v26_n1_p195_Ferraro
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Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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