Ueber das Doppler’sche Princip

by Woldemar Voigt

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First edition

Göttingen: Dieterich, 1887. First edition of the paper in which Voigt worked out what Doppler’s principle looks like when light is a wave in an elastic aether, wrote down at the beginning of 1887 a change of the variables of space and time that leaves the wave equation unaltered and gives an observer in motion a time of his own, one that depends on where he stands — the transformation that Lorentz arrived at

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