Einstein's reinterpretation of the Fizeau experiment: how it turned out to be crucial for special relativity

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.08.004zbMath1409.83003OpenAlexW2896479025MaRDI QIDQ666917

Alejandro Cassini, Marcelo Leonardo Levinas

Publication date: 12 March 2019

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

conceptual changerelativistic kinematicscrucial experimentether-drag

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Special relativity (83A05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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