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From Newton to Einstein: the birth of Special Relativity
Rafael Ferraro
Physics was in crisis at the beginning of the twentieth century because the newborn Maxwell's electromagnetism defied mechanistic preconceptions. Albert Einstein understood that th…
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Arago (1810): the first experimental result against the ether
Rafael Ferraro, Daniel M. Sforza
95 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 th…