On A Possible Mode Of Detecting A Motion Of The Solar System Through The Luminiferous Ether In A

by James Clerk Maxwell

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First edition

London: Harrison & Sons, 1880. First edition, in the very rare original printed wrappers, of Maxwell’s last paper, “published posthumously in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, which concerned a means of measuring the speed of the Earth through the hypothetical aether, and was the inspiration for Michelson and Morley’s famous experiment. The null result of that experiment was to lead to the

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