"Als meine wichtigste Aufgabe sah ich an, vom ersten Tage an aufklärend zu wirken und die außergewöhnlichen Beziehunge…"

"Maxwell... was one of the scientific editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1878-89)... contributing a number [of ar…"

"[L]et us look at what primarily motivated Michelson (and Morley) into performing these experiments. One of the clear …"

"But the changes of dimension and mass due velocity are not conventions but realities; so I urge, on the basis of the …"

"We have... to speak of a celebrated experiment made by Michelson in 1881, and repeated by him on a larger scale with …"

"Relative motion of the aether.—We must therefore consider the aether within dense bodies as somewhat loosely connecte…"

"Sir, I have received with much pleasure the tables of the satellites of Jupiter which you have been so kind as to sen…"

"If... an apparatus is so constructed as to permit two pencils of light, which have travelled over paths at right angl…"

"In 1880 Michelson was at Berlin in the laboratory of Helmholtz. There he started the experiment, which was later comp…"

"If the ether is stationary, as postulated by Fresnel, the optically important phenomenon of aberration is completely …"