Studies in Optics
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Dover Pubns
- Retrieved
- May 16, 2012
- ISBN
- m2tUZ4_8WG
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The Importance of the Velocity of Light
The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau gave as the result a speed greater in air than in water, thus deciding in favor of the undulatory and against the corpuscular theory. Again, the comparison of the electrostatic and the…