The Ether of Space
Wie Alles sich zum Ganzen webt Eins in dem andern wirkt und lebt!
BY
SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.
D.Sc. Lond., Hon. D. Sc. Oxon. et Vict. LL.D. St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen Vice-President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers Rumford Medallist of the Royal Society Ex-President of the Physical Society of London Late Professor of Physics in the University College of Liverpool Honorary Member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia ; of the Manchester Philosophical Society; of the Batavian Society of Rotterdam; and of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
Principal of the University of Birmingham
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers All rights reserved
Investigation of the nature and properties of the Ether of Space has long been for me the most fascinating branch of Physics, and I welcome the opportunity of attempting to make generally known the conclusions to which I have so far been led on this great and perhaps inexhaustible subject.
OLIVER LODGE.
University of Birmingham, March, 1909 .
Sir Oliver Lodge
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
THE ETHER OF SPACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
EXPERIMENTS ON THE ETHER
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
ETHERIAL DENSITY
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
ETHER AND MATTER
CHAPTER IX
STRENGTH OF THE ETHER
CHAPTER X
GENERAL THEORY OF ABERRATION
SUMMARY.
ON GRAVITY AND ETHERIAL TENSION
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
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