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===Primary sources=== <references group=A> <ref name=dirac>{{cite journal|last=Dirac |first=P. M. |author-link=Paul Dirac |title=Is there an Aether? |year=1951 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=168 |issue=4282 |page=906 |url=http://home.tiscali.nl/physis/HistoricPaper/Dirac/Dirac1951b.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217075000/http://home.tiscali.nl/physis/HistoricPaper/Dirac/Dirac1951b.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2008 |access-date=23 February 2017 |doi=10.1038/168906a0 |bibcode=1951Natur.168..906D |s2cid=4288946 }}</ref> <ref name=einselektro>{{Citation |doi=10.1002/andp.19053221004 |author=Einstein, Albert |year=1905a |title=Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper |journal=Annalen der Physik |volume=322 |issue=10 |pages=891–921|bibcode = 1905AnP...322..891E |doi-access=free }}. See also: [http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/ English translation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125150029/http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/ |date=2005-11-25 }}.</ref> <ref name=einsdev>Einstein, Albert: (1909) [[s:The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation|The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation]] {{Cite web |url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_Radiation |title=The Development of Our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation |access-date=2024-01-14 |archive-date=2008-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423225347/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_Radiation |url-status=bot: unknown }}, ''Phys. Z.'', '''10''', 817–825. (review of aether theories, among other topics)</ref> <ref name=einsta>{{Citation | author=A. Einstein | year=1918 | title=Dialog about Objections against the Theory of Relativity | journal=Naturwissenschaften | volume=6|issue=48|pages=697–702|bibcode = 1918NW......6..697E |doi = 10.1007/BF01495132 | title-link=s:Translation:Dialog about Objections against the Theory of Relativity | s2cid=28132355 }}</ref> <ref name=einstb>Einstein, Albert: "[[s:Ether and the Theory of Relativity|Ether and the Theory of Relativity]]" (1920), republished in ''Sidelights on Relativity'' (Methuen, London, 1922)</ref> <ref name=einstc>{{Citation | author=A. Einstein | year=1924 | title=Über den Äther | journal=Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft | volume=105|issue=2|pages=85–93 }}. See also an English translation: [http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/aether.htm Concerning the Aether] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104022846/http://www.oe.eclipse.co.uk/nom/aether.htm |date=2010-11-04 }}</ref> <ref name=einstd>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alberteinstein.info/db/ViewImage.do?DocumentID=34095&Page=1|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616123244/http://www.alberteinstein.info/db/ViewImage.do?DocumentID=34095&Page=1|url-status=unfit|title=Einstein Archives Online|archivedate=16 June 2011}}</ref> <ref name=fresnel>Fresnel, A. (1818), "Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique", ''Annales de Chimie et de Physique'', '''9''': 57–66 (Sep. 1818), 286–7 (Nov. 1818); reprinted in H. de Senarmont, E. Verdet, and L. Fresnel (eds.), ''Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Fresnel'', vol.{{nnbsp}}2 (1868), [https://books.google.com/books?id=g6tzUG7JmoQC&pg=PA627 pp.{{nnbsp}}627–36]; translated as [https://books.google.com/books?id=9KQ3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA125 "Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago, on the influence of the movement of the earth on some phenomena of optics"] in K.F. Schaffner, ''Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories'', Pergamon, 1972 ({{doi|10.1016/C2013-0-02335-3}}), pp.{{nnbsp}}125–35; also translated (with several errors) by R.R. Traill as "Letter from Augustin Fresnel to François Arago concerning the influence of terrestrial movement on several optical phenomena", ''General Science Journal'', 23 January 2006 ([https://www.gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Historical%20Papers-Mechanics%20/%20Electrodynamics/Download/2496 PDF, 8{{nnbsp}}pp.]).</ref> <ref name=lara>{{Citation |author=Larmor, Joseph |year=1897 |title=On a Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium, Part 3, Relations with material media |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society |volume=190 |pages=205–300 |doi=10.1098/rsta.1897.0020|bibcode = 1897RSPTA.190..205L |title-link=s:Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium III |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=larb>{{Citation |author=Larmor, Joseph |year=1900 |title=Aether and Matter |publisher=Cambridge University Press|title-link=s:Aether and Matter }}</ref> <ref name=lora>{{Citation |last=Lorentz |first=Hendrik Antoon |year=1892 |title=De relatieve beweging van de aarde en den aether |trans-title=[[s:Translation:The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether|The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether]] |journal=Zittingsverlag Akad. V. Wet. |pages=74–79 |volume=1|title-link=s:nl:De relatieve beweging van de aarde en den aether }}</ref> <ref name=lorb>{{Citation |author=Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon |year=1895 |title=Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern |trans-title=[[s:Translation:Attempt of a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies|Attempt of a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies]] |location=Leiden |publisher=E.J. Brill|title-link=s:de:Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern }}</ref> <ref name=lorc>{{Citation |author=Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon |year=1899 |title=Simplified Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Systems |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=1 |pages=427–442|title-link=s:Simplified Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Systems }}</ref> <ref name=lord>{{Citation |author=Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon |year=1904 |title=Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity smaller than that of light |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=6 |pages=809–831|title-link=s:Electromagnetic phenomena }}</ref> <ref name=lore>{{Citation |author=Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon |year=1921 |title=Deux Mémoires de Henri Poincaré sur la Physique Mathématique |trans-title=[[s:Translation:Two Papers of Henri Poincaré on Mathematical Physics|Two Papers of Henri Poincaré on Mathematical Physics]] |journal=Acta Mathematica |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=293–308 |doi=10.1007/BF02392073|title-link=s:fr:Deux Mémoires de Henri Poincaré sur la Physique Mathématique |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=lorf>{{Citation | author=Lorentz, H.A. | year=1928 | title=Conference on the Michelson-Morley Experiment |journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=68 | pages =345–351 | bibcode=1928ApJ....68..341M | last2=Lorentz | first2=H. A. | last3=Miller | first3=D. C. | last4=Kennedy | first4=R. J. | last5=Hedrick | first5=E. R. | last6=Epstein | first6=P. S. | doi=10.1086/143148| doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=maxa>{{cite EB9 |mode=cs2 |last=Maxwell |first=James Clerk |wstitle=Ether |volume=8 |pages=568–572}}</ref> <ref name=maxb> {{Cite web |last = Maxwell |first = JC |year = 1865 |title = ''A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field'' (Part 1) |url = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field.pdf |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110728140123/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field.pdf |archive-date = 2011-07-28 }}</ref> <ref name=newton>Newton, Isaac: ''[https://archive.org/details/opticksoratreat01newtgoog <!-- quote=opticks newton. --> Opticks]'' (1704). Fourth edition of 1730. (Republished 1952 (Dover: New York), with commentary by Bernard Cohen, Albert Einstein, and Edmund Whittaker).</ref> <ref name=poinca>{{Citation |author=Poincaré, Henri |year=1900 |title=La théorie de Lorentz et le principe de réaction |journal=Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles |volume=5 |pages=252–278|title-link=s:fr:La théorie de Lorentz et le principe de réaction }}. See also the [http://www.physicsinsights.org/poincare-1900.pdf English translation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626193037/http://www.physicsinsights.org/poincare-1900.pdf |date=2008-06-26 }}.</ref> <ref name=poincb>{{Citation |author=Poincaré, Henri |year=1904–1906 |chapter=[[s:The Principles of Mathematical Physics|The Principles of Mathematical Physics]] |editor=Rogers, Howard J. |title=Congress of arts and science, universal exposition, St. Louis, 1904 |volume=1 |pages=604–622 |publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Company |place=Boston and New York}}</ref> <ref name=poincc>{{Citation |author=Poincaré, Henri |year=1905b |title=Sur la dynamique de l'électron |trans-title=[[s:Translation:On the Dynamics of the Electron (June)|On the Dynamics of the Electron]] |journal=Comptes Rendus |volume=140 |pages=1504–1508|title-link=s:fr:Sur la dynamique de l'électron (juin) }}</ref> <ref name=poincd>{{Citation |author=Poincaré, Henri |year=1906 |title=Sur la dynamique de l'électron |trans-title=[[s:Translation:On the Dynamics of the Electron (July)|On the Dynamics of the Electron]] |journal=Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo |volume=21 |pages=129–176 |doi=10.1007/BF03013466|bibcode=1906RCMP...21..129P |hdl=2027/uiug.30112063899089 |s2cid=120211823 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428444 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> <ref name=stokes>{{Cite journal|author=G. G. Stokes|title=On the Aberration of Light |journal=Philosophical Magazine |volume=27 |issue=177 |year=1845 |pages=9–15 |doi=10.1080/14786444508645215|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1431057 }}</ref> </references>
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