Royal Society Publishing: Navarro 2025 (Notes and Records); Biographical Memoir (cited)

Visit: 2026-10-07, Investigator run (STEP I). Site: https://royalsocietypublishing.org (positive in the Q07 run for the 1927 paper; this run read a different item). Queries: Google Navarro 2025 "Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism"; "Edmund Taylor Whittaker" Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1956 Temple.

J. Navarro, "Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism. Thoughts of a convert", Notes Rec. 79 (1): 20240023, pp.195-216 (2025), open access

URL https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2024.0023 (redirects to /rsnr/article/79/1/20240023/116654/...). The page opened. I searched it for aether/ether/gravitation and found mostly title mentions of the History. Passages noted [web: page find]: - a passage on Oliver Lodge and spiritualist readings of the ether; - a passage quoting an interpretation of "incarnation" as a "conversion between ether and matter" (whose view this is was not checked in the time available); - a passage on Whittaker's exchange with Fred Hoyle mentioning "in the ether waves". Time did not allow a full read. Bearing: priority 4 (Whittaker's later outlook). It is unlikely to bear on the 1902-03 physics. Read it in full only if the reviewers want Whittaker's later philosophical position on the aether.

G. F. J. Temple, "Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 1873-1956", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 (1956), 299-325, doi 10.1098/rsbm.1956.0021 (JSTOR 769492)

Found in Google results only; not opened. The standard memoir, with a full bibliography. [web: Google snippet]

Recheck of the 1927 paper (positive in the Q07 run)

Not reopened this run: Chrome cannot read PDF text, and the time went to new sites. The Synge 1958 review (2026-10-07-cambridge-synge.md) now summarises the paper: electromagnetic fields superimposed on a fixed vacuum (Schwarzschild) space-time, within general relativity.