Index
Adams, J. C., 129
Alvager, T., 209, 211, 234
Ampere, A. M., 130
Andradc, Professor E. N. da C., 168
Ann. Phys., 61 n. Arzelies, H., 50
Assumption and Myth, 45
'Autobiographical Notes', Einstein, 198
Bacon, Sir Francis, 171
Bannister, Roger, 142
Barrett, W., 152
Bergson, H., 188
Biem, W., 196
Bilaniuk, 0., 28
Blackett, Lord, 85, 96-7, 98, 99-100, 102, 107, 108, 110, 112
Bondi, Professor H., 44, 77, 102, 185,189, 100, 212
Born, Professor Max, 39, 42, 43, 44-46, 51, 52, 59, 61, 66, 94, 96, 97, 105, 106, 108, 168-9, 171, 173, 189, 196, 200, 213, 224, 228, 231, 245
Boyle's law, 232
Bragg, Sir Lawrence, 20, 96, 100-113, 143, 145, 159
Bragg, Sir William, 107, 108
Bridgman, P. W., 105
Brimble, L. J. P., 44, 50, 59
British and Foreign Bible Society, 91
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 87, 219
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 41
Brown, Dr. G. Burniston, 114-15 Browning, Robert, 125, 182, 202
Cochran, Professor W., 39
Copernican astronomical system, 161
'Copernican heresy', 206
Copernicus, 207
Coulson, Professor C. A., 51, 52, 55, 56, 81, 96
Cunningham, E., 178
Dale, Sir Henry, O.M., 23, 35, 38, 44, 60, 80, 87, 97, 102, 108, 109, 112, 1l6, 217, 219, 220, 221
Darwin, Sir Charles, 114
Descartes, R., 144, 202
de Sitter, W., 205-7, 209
Diderot, D., 246, 249
Discovery: the Spirit and Service of Science, 67
Dodgson, C. L. (Lewis Carroll), 128
Doppler effect, 186, 215-17
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 76
Duree et Simultaneity {Duration and Simultaneity), 188
Eddington, A. S., 27, 39, 105, 136, 141, 179, 18o, 187-8, 195
Einstein, Professor Albert, 10
Theory of relativity, 10, 11, 15, 34, 40-6, 61, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 94-5,100, 103, 105, 106, 110, 112, 115, Il6, 121, I24, 133, 134, 135, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148-50, 153~9, 161. 162, 165, and n, 166-71, 172, 173, 174, 175. 176, 177-83, 185, 186-9, 191-2, 195-201, 202-8, 209-17, 221, 225, 230, 232-4, 236-7, 238, 246, 247, 248, 249
Einstein, His Life and Times, 173
Elements of Geometry, 204
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 106
Epstein, Professor P. S., 180
Essay in Physics, 124
Essen, Dr. L., 114-15
Ether of Space, The, 163, 168
Euclid, 122, 204
Evolution of Physics, The, 86, 153, 205
Faraday, M., 130, 132, 133, 162
Fitzgerald, G. F., 162, 164, 165, 168
'FitzGerald contraction', 233, 247
Foreseeable Future, The, 40
Fowler, Professor A., 177-8, 179
Fox, J. G., 209-11, 220, 221
Frank, Philipp, 173 Fuller, Margaret, 218
Galilean kinematics, 248
Galilean transformation, 33, 235, 236
Galileo, 26, 30
Galle, J. G., 129-30
Gregory, Sir Richard, 64, 67, 108, 178, 183, 212
Hagen, W., 10, 12
Hertz, H., 131, 155, 168, 181
Hibbert Journal, The, 168
History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity (Vol. 2), 167
Hooke, R., 25
Hoyle, Professor (now Sir) Fred, 129, 217-18
Huxley, Sir Julian, 51, 52, 53
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 52
Imperial College, 177
Infeld, L., 86, 153, 205
Institute of Physics Bulletin, 40
International Astronomical Union, 178
Jacobson, Professor L., 188
Jeans, Sir James, 107, 177, 179
Kelvin, Lord, 131, 155
King-Hele, Dr. D. G., 74
Kjellman, J., 209, 211, 234
Laplace, P. S., 27
Larmor, Sir Joseph, 168
Lenard, P., 198-9
Leverrier, U. J. J., 129
Levi-Civita, T., 174
Levin, Bernard, 9, 10, 11
Library of Living Philosophers, The, Einstein volume, 106 Listener, the, 9, 78, 83-7, 89, 90, 92, 100
Lockyer, Sir Norman, 64, 212 Lodge, Sir Oliver, 155, 163-4, i68 Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen, 20, 51, 52, 56-8, 81, 99
Lorentz, H. A., 87, 94-5, 132, 141, 142, i43, 144, 145, i6o, 162, 164-174, 176-81, 187-8, 211, 215, 216, 217, 220, 232-6
Lorentz, relativity theory of, 165, 176, 187, 247
Lorentz transformation, 33, 34, 45, 62, 165 and n, 167, 170, 171, 172,
175, i8o, 181, 185, i90, 197, 209, 212, 225, 226, 230, 231, 232, 235,
236, 237, 240, 242
Lorentzian ether, 191, 217
Lyttleton, Professor R. A., 10, n, 13
McCrea, Professor W. H., 44, 66, 74, 8o, 83, 84, 85, 86, 100, 102, 112, 113, 152, 153, l8o-90, 202, 224, 225-6, 246-9
Maddox, John, 63, 65, 67, 68,70,71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 85, 86, 89, 90
Mathematical Theory of Relativity, The, 136