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Einstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" Experiment

1969; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 60; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/350468

1545-6994

Gerald Holton,

Relativity and Gravitational Theory

Previous articleNext article No AccessEinstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" ExperimentGerald HoltonGerald HoltonPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 60, Number 2Summer, 1969 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/350468 Views: 22Total views on this site Citations: 81Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1969 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:JEROEN SMID The Magic of Ad Hoc Solutions, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6 (Aug 2022): 1–18.https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.27Olivier Darrigol Can we trust Einstein's accounts of the genesis of special relativity?, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 89 (Oct 2021): 138–154.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.04.005Mansoor Niaz Feyerabend's Counterinduction and Science Textbooks, (Jan 2020): 109–154.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36859-3_7Roberto Lalli The Multiple Lives of the General Relativity Community, 1955–1974, (Jul 2020): 179–202.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48509-2_11Wonyong Park, Seungran Yang, Jinwoong Song When Modern Physics Meets Nature of Science, Science & Education 28, no.9-109-10 (Nov 2019): 1055–1083.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-019-00075-9Alejandro Cassini, Marcelo Leonardo Levinas Einstein's reinterpretation of the Fizeau experiment: How it turned out to be crucial for special relativity, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65 (Feb 2019): 55–72.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.08.004Samuel Schindler A coherentist conception of ad hoc hypotheses, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 67 (Feb 2018): 54–64.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.11.011Felipe Damasio, Luiz O. 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