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Excerpt from The Wave Theory of Light When, however, Michelson and Morley attempt to detect this relative motion of the earth and the ether as the earth proceeds in its orbital motion, they do not succeed in certainly finding that there is any [phil. Mag, December, and they accordingly conclude that this relative motion is quite small enough to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. Of the two experimental facts just cited, one apparently confirms Fresnel's view, and makes possible an explanation of aberration in terms of the wave-theory; while the other leads us to think that the ether moves with the refracting medium, in which case the wave-theory appears incompetent to explain stellar aberration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.