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

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2018.08.004MaRDI QIDQ666917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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 changecrucial experimentether-dragrelativistic kinematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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