Applications of the Lorentz-FitzGerald Hypothesis to Dynamical and Gravitational Problems

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There is at the present time a general consensus of opinion, among those best qualified to judge, that the fundamental facts of optics and electro-dynamics require us to assume that the ether does not partake (to any sensible extent) in the motion of material bodies which pass through it. The aberration of light is...