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Re: Doppler question



Now that Tim has mentioned it, I recall an article by Holton from AJP that
makes the same claim. It was collected in the AAPT reader on relativity,
but the original article dates from 1958, I think.

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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Tim Wilson wrote:


Gerald Holton has a chapter is his book "Thematic Origins of Scientific
Thought" on this issue. He looks at quite a lot of evidence and builds a
convincing, albeit circumstantial, case that Einstein didn't know of
Michelson-Morley. I haven't read the article for several years so I
don't remember many of the fine points. A good read, though.

-Tim

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