The Ether of Space
by Sir Oliver Lodge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Mark Young, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Ether (Space)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40911
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40911
- Release Date
- October 2, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Harper's Library of Living Thought — THE ETHER OF SPACE — ILLUSTRATED — LONDON AND NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS 45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1909
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTION
- 6.THE ETHER OF SPACE
- 7.CHAPTER I — THE LUMINIFEROUS ETHER AND THE MODERN THEORY OF LIGHT
- 8.CHAPTER II — THE INTERSTELLAR ETHER AS A CONNECTING MEDIUM
- 9.CHAPTER III — INFLUENCE OF MOTION ON VARIOUS PHENOMENA
- 10.CHAPTER IV — EXPERIMENTS ON THE ETHER
- 11.CHAPTER V — SPECIAL EXPERIMENT ON ETHERIAL VISCOSITY
- 12.CHAPTER VI — ETHERIAL DENSITY
- 13.CHAPTER VII — FURTHER EXPLANATIONS CONCERNING THE DENSITY AND ENERGY OF THE ETHER
- 14.CHAPTER VIII — ETHER AND MATTER
- 15.CHAPTER IX — STRENGTH OF THE ETHER
- 16.CHAPTER X — GENERAL THEORY OF ABERRATION
- 17.SUMMARY.
- 18.APPENDIX 1 — ON GRAVITY AND ETHERIAL TENSION
- 19.APPENDIX 2 — CALCULATIONS IN CONNEXION WITH ETHER DENSITY
- 20.APPENDIX 3 — FRESNEL'S LAW A SPECIAL CASE OF A UNIVERSAL POTENTIAL FUNCTION
- 21.Science for the General Reader — WORLDS IN THE MAKING — ASTRONOMY WITH THE NAKED EYE — THE FRIENDLY STARS — SIDELIGHTS ON ASTRONOMY — THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMERCE — NEW CONCEPTIONS IN SCIENCE — NINETEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE
- 22.LIVING THOUGHT — Harper's Library of Living Thought
- 23.Harper's Library of Living Thought — FOOTNOTES:
- 24.Transcriber's Notes
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