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  • BJH volume 5 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / December 1970
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b10
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    December 1970
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  • The Changing Role of Young's Ether

  • Geoffrey Cantor
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 1970
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    05 January 2009, pp. 44-62
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    June 1970

  • This paper sets out to examine the changes which took place in Thomas Young's concepts of the ether between 1799 and 1807. During the earlier part of this period he supposed the ether to consist of mutually repelling subtle particles which are attracted to particles of matter. Hence, he considered that the ether is denser within dense bodies than in rare ones. Furthermore, Young proposed that the ether density does not change abruptly at an interface; instead the denser ether extends beyond the geometrical limit of a body to form an atmosphere around it. As this hypothesis of an atmosphere of dense ether surrounding material bodies will be the central subject of this paper, I shall in future refer to it as the ether distribution hypothesis.

  • Poincare's Silence and Einstein's Relativity: The Role of Theory and Experiment in Poincaré's Physics

  • Stanley Goldberg
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 1970
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    05 January 2009, pp. 73-84
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    June 1970

  • It is a matter of record that Henri Poincaré never responded publicly to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (RT). Since almost no private papers of Poincaré are available, his attitude toward Einstein's work and his silence on that score become somewhat of a mystery. It is almost certain that Poincaré knew of Einstein's work in RT. First, he was fluent in German, having learned it as a young man when the Germans occupied his home town of Nancy in 1870. Second, he often reported to the members of the Académie des Sciences on current work in electrodynamics in Germany. It is highly improbable that he would have missed the abstract of Einstein's first paper on RT or the subsequent articles by Einstein on the subject, especially those which were translated into French, since they were in areas directly related to his own interests in theoretical physics.

  • BJH volume 5 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / June 1970
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b7
    Print publication:
    June 1970
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