...was a device often resorted to for minded men had during the eighteenth century. . . . The only ether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light." * Those ethers were working hypotheses which might be expected to give way wholly or in part to better...

...Professor Roentgen's experiments in photographTHE AEENA. ing through opaque media such as wood, etc. The properties of this medium, as deduced from the...been found to be precisely those required to explain electro-magnetic phenomena. "O divine aether, and ye swift-winged breezes, and ye fountains of rivers...

...the media, as imagined by them, would produce the effects they were meant to explain. The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens...been found to be precisely those required to explain electromagnetic phenomena." This description, quoted from James Clerk Maxwell's article in the gth...

...the media, as imagined by them, would produce the effects they were meant to explain. The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens...accumulated as additional phenomena of light and other radiation! have been discovered; and the properties of this medium, as deduced from the phenomena of...

...luminiferous ether [here assumed to coincide with the universal medium, a view which must now be modified] has accumulated, as additional phenomena of light...been found to be precisely those required to explain electromagnetic phenomena. . . . That light is not Itself a substance, may be proved from the phenomenon...

...the media, as imagined by them, would produce the effects they were meant to explain. The only jether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens...explain the propagation of light. The evidence for its existence has accumulated as additional phenomena of light and other radiations have been discovered;...

...so on, till all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers. . . . The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light. [lt was reintroduced at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the revival of the wave theory of...

...the media, as imagined by them, would produce the effects they were meant to explain. The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens...been found to be precisely those required to explain electromagnetic phenomena. Function of the cether in the propagation of radiation. — The evidence...