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Ninety five years before special relativity was born, Arago attempted to detect the absolute motion of the Earth by measuring the deflection of starlight passing through a prism fixed to the Earth. The null result of this experiment gave rise to Fresnel's hypothesis of an ether partly dragged by a moving substance. In the context of Einstein's relativity, the sole frame which is privileged in Arago's experiment is the proper frame of the prism, and the null result only says that Snell's law is valid in that frame. We revisit the history of this premature first evidence against the ether theory and calculate Fresnel's dragging coefficient by applying Huygens' construction in the frame of the prism. We expose the dissimilar treatment received by the ray and the wavefront as an unavoidable consequence of the classical notions of space and time. © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether
Autor:Ferraro, R.; Sforza, D.M.
Filiación:Inst. Astronomia/Fisica del Espacio, Casilla de Correo 67, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Cie. Exact. y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769, United States
Palabras clave:Earth (planet); Lenses; Light velocity; Mathematical models; Optical telescopes; Prisms; Refractive index; Wavefronts; Fresnel hypothesis; Lumiferous ether; Relativity
Año:2005
Volumen:26
Número:1
Página de inicio:195
Página de fin:204
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/26/1/020
Título revista:European Journal of Physics
Título revista abreviado:Eur J Phys
ISSN:01430807
CODEN:EJPHD
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01430807_v26_n1_p195_Ferraro

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Ferraro, R. & Sforza, D.M. (2005) . Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether. European Journal of Physics, 26(1), 195-204.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/26/1/020
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Ferraro, R., Sforza, D.M. "Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether" . European Journal of Physics 26, no. 1 (2005) : 195-204.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/26/1/020
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Ferraro, R., Sforza, D.M. "Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether" . European Journal of Physics, vol. 26, no. 1, 2005, pp. 195-204.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/26/1/020
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Ferraro, R., Sforza, D.M. Arago (1810): The first experimental result against the ether. Eur J Phys. 2005;26(1):195-204.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/26/1/020