Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic affluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, until all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers.... The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light.
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エーテルは、惑星の泳動、電磁気の振る舞い、そして我々の日常に起こる様々な事象を説明するために発明された。しかし、辻褄を合わせるためには、エーテルの理論は三重にも四重にも変更され、複雑怪奇なるものとなった。...結局のところ、ホイヘンスが光の伝播を説明するために発明したもの以上に納得できる理論は、残らなかった。
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^ 広重(1960) p.31
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広重徹 著、菅井準一 編『近代物理学史 ―発展の過程を中心に―』八杉竜一(監修)、地人書館、1960年。
広重徹『物理学史 1』 5巻、培風館〈新物理学シリーズ〉、1968年。