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" Fizeau in 1851 is essentially correct, and that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. "
Nature - Page 139
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Science, Volume 8

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1886 - 776 pages
...to that of its vapor. M. Fizeau also stated that his observations taught him that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates, and said that he hoped soon to announce the existence of a peculiar variation in the magnetic force...
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Nature, Volume 34

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1886 - 972 pages
...show that the result announced by Fizeau in 1851 is essentially correct, and that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the...of the paper M. Fizeau took occasion to remark that lie hail never ceased to prosecute his studies on the nature and properties of the ether, and hoped...
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Science, Volume 8

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1886 - 720 pages
...to that of its vapor. M. Fizeau also stated that his observations taught him that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates, and said that he hoped soon to announce the existence of a peculiar variation in the magnetic force...
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The American Journal of Science

Science - 1886 - 1060 pages
...particle with its atmosphere may be regarded as a single body, and then the statement is, simply, that the ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. It will be recalled that Fizeau* divided a pencil of light, issuing from a slit placed in the focus...
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The New Princeton Review, Volume 2

Christianity - 1886 - 484 pages
...from the observations is that Fizeau's results are substantially correct, and that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. Clausius considers, in the Bulletin de FAcademie Royale de Belgique of March 6, the experiments of...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1889 - 822 pages
...work that the conclusion obtained by Fizeau is essentially correct, and that the luminiferous aether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. (Am. J. Sei., May, 1886, III, xxxi, 377.) At the next meeting of the French Academy Cornu thus spoke...
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Biographical Memoirs, Volume 11

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Scientists - 1926 - 624 pages
...noteworthy is that of the relative motion of the earth and the ether. Fizeau had already shown that the ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. To repeat Fizeau's experiment was the first task in which Micholson and Morley cooperated, and this...
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Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

John Kadvany - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 400 pages
...is therefore that the result announced by Fizeau is essentially correct; and that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates."16 The 1886 experiment, ignored by Lakatos, does not fit neatly into the competition of...
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Nature, Volume 34

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1886 - 688 pages
...tending fully lo confirm Fizeau's classical experiment of 1851, which proved that the luminiferous ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates. — Note on the structure of tempered steel, by C. liarus and V. Slrouhal. The results are given of...
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The Wave Theory of Light: Memoirs of Huygens, Young and Fresnel, Volume 15

Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young, Augustin Jean Fresnel, François Arago - Light - 1900 - 190 pages
...index at the same point in the body. This is really equivalent to saying that " the luminiferous /, ether is entirely unaffected by the motion of the matter which it permeates." [Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. cxxxi., p. 386.] And that this is the fact of nature is exactly the conclusion...
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