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Queries and what they gave

  1. Lodge "density of the aether" Philosophical Magazine 1907 - Gave the full citation: Phil. Mag. 13: 488-506 (from the Kragh 2012 reference list on JSTOR). - rusneb.ru (Russian National Electronic Library) catalogue lists a separate offprint, "The density of the aether: from the Philosophical Magazine for April 1907", bound with La vie et la matière (1909). - An ERIC report (S. Goldberg 1968) lists two contemporary reports of the 1907 paper: "Density of the Aether", Science 26: 482-83 (1907), and Scientific American Supplement 64: 212-13 (1907). - worldradiohistory.com hosts a 311-page PDF, "Oliver Lodge and the Invention of Radio" (a biography with a timeline), whose entry reads "1907 March. Calculates density of the aether, and relates it to a scale of length now considered fundamental". It was not opened. - A Cambridge UP chapter, "Chapter Five CELEBRATED SPEAKER 1899-1908", of a Lodge biography: the snippet cites Lorentz, Archives Néerland. 5 (1900) 252, on the relation between ether energy density and electromagnetic mass density. It was not opened (see sites.md).
  2. Kragh "Preludes to dark energy" zero-point energy Lodge ether density: arXiv PDF, Springer, Semantic Scholar ("XXXIX. The density of the æther"), and the Aarhus RePoSS #21 PDF. Both PDFs were downloaded (see the arXiv note).
  3. Oliver Lodge "ether machine" OR "whirling machine" spinning discs 1893 1897 apparatus museum - Wikimedia Commons, "File:Sir Oliver Lodge's ether machine.png": light from a common-path interferometer guided between rotating discs. - Bruce J. Hunt, "Experimenting on the Ether: Oliver J. Lodge and the Great Whirling Machine", Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 16 (1986) 111-134. - Academia.edu, "From ether theory to ether theology", describing "two heavy iron discs each about a yard wide". - A Cambridge UP chapter, "Chapter Three POPULAR SUCCESS 1893-1896": "Lodge ... had already tried using magnetised discs in the ether machine - with the usual negative results." - dokumen.pub, A Pioneer of Connection (apparently an unauthorised copy, not opened).
  4. "CELEBRATED SPEAKER 1899-1908" Lodge Cambridge: one result at resolve.cambridge.org. Clicking it did not open in the MCP tab. The snippet says Lodge had begun to recover from his illness by the time of the British Association meeting at Dover in September (1899). The book's title is still unknown.
  5. "Oliver Lodge" papers archive catalogue Cadbury Research Library OR UCL OR Liverpool ether - University of Liverpool SC&A guide (opened; see its note). - University of Birmingham Calmview XOJL "Papers of Sir Oliver Lodge 1861-1950": over 2,000 letters, 1861-1940. Also "Letters Additional of Sir Oliver Lodge" (GB 150 OLLAdd, 225 items, 1881-1939) on Archives Hub. - oliverlodge.org ("Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Cultures of Science") and a Cadbury Flickr set. - Birmingham City Council Calmview: Lodge letters to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury.
  6. Hunt "Experimenting on the Ether" Lodge "Great Whirling Machine": JSTOR (stable PDF; probably paywalled) and UC Press HSNS 16(1). The author's blog lists the article.
  7. "From ether theory to ether theology" Lodge pdf: Courtenay Grean Raia, "From ether theory to ether theology: Oliver Lodge and the physics of immortality", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43 (2007) 19-43 (Wiley). Also cited by A. Pokazanyeva, Zygon (2016), "Mind within matter: science, the occult, and the (meta)physics of ether and akasha".
  8. J. J. Thomson 1904 "Electricity and Matter" charge magnetic pole "moment of momentum" ether spin: led to the archive.org text (Thomson pp.25-27). The Wikimedia Commons PDF of Lodge's Electrons cites Thomson, Phil. Mag., April 1899, p.416.
  9. "Lodge" ether density "10^12" OR "1012 grammes" OR "10,000 tons" vacuum energy ether history: Gutenberg; Kragh; sbresearchgroup.eu "About ether" (quotes Kragh); theochem.ru.nl Knowino "Ether (physics)"; spacefed.com article (opened; see its note).
  10. "Proceedings of the Royal Institution" Lodge "ether of space" February 21 1908 discourse
    • Richard Noakes, "Ethers, Religion and Politics in Late-Victorian Physics", History of Science 43 (2005) 415 (ADS full scan at https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005HisSc..43..415N; not read).
    • Histories of the Electron (Buchwald & Warwick, eds.).
    • Physics: Where It Went Wrong (4th ed., ISBN 9781737915881): an alternative-physics book citing "Lodge, O., 1908, The ether of space, Address to the Royal Institution" (dokumen.pub copy, not opened).
    • Loving Faster than Light, citing the Times article "The Ether of Space - Sir Oliver Lodge's Caution", 8 Nov 1919, p.12.
  11. "Lodge" ether 1919 eclipse relativity "Lodge's caution" OR "ether and relativity" Times
    • A. Sponsel, "Constructing a 'Revolution in Science'", BJHS (2002), on the 1919 eclipse campaign. It cites "Sir Oliver Lodge's caution. To the editor of The Times", 8 Nov 1919, 12.
    • L. C. Young 2007 thesis (OhioLINK), "the dissemination of Einstein's theory of time through print", which discusses Lodge's Ether and Relativity.
    • Gwern-hosted Holton, Thematic Origins, which quotes Lodge's 1921 critique of relativity.
    • The Scribd Einstein's Opponents (Wazeck).

The Proceedings of the Royal Institution version of the 21 Feb 1908 discourse was not located online in this run.