THE discovery. of the aberration of light was soon followed by an explanation according to
the emission theory. The effect was attributed to a simple composition of the velocity of light …

… himself gives special emphasis to the one item on his list that seems unambiguously to fit
this bill — Fresnel's wave theory of light and its associated elastic-solid "luminiferous ether". …

Let V be the velocity of light. v= the speed of the earth with respect to the ether. D= the
distance between the two points. d= the distance through which the earth moves, while light …

a priori to the contrary, the motion might be very much greater than what would correspond
to this; and the idea has a value of its own,. irrespective of the possibility of actually making …

… In attempting to answer these questions, we have first to show that the theory of the
constitution of the luminiferous ether as at present held is untenable~ and, secondly, we must …

… The phase of the waves T in the right-handed sense (see the diagram) is changed along
the closed path, as if the luminiferous ether had a left-handed rotation when the system rotates …

… indeed “discovered the existence of a luminiferous ether” and denied that relativity theory …
in it, but the question of the existence of the luminiferous ether was certainly not the source. …

… Among the most pressing was the problem of the properties of the luminiferous ether. Fresnel
had shown that light waves were transverse. Therefore, since, among ordinary materials, …

… rendus, tome 152, 1911, page 310; Le Radium, tome VIII, 1911, page 1), and which, in the
context of current ideas, should be construed as a direct observation of the luminiferous ether. …

… THE luminiferous ether was not Henry Adams's invention, but if he had tried he could hardly
… the name "luminiferous ether." However, to Adams the "luminiferous ether" was simply the …