Armand Hippolyte Fizeau.”Sur les Hypothèses relatives a Lèther lumineux. Et sur une expérience qui parait démontrer que le mouvement des corps change la vitesse avec laquelle la lumiere se propage dans leur interieur; (Extrait par l'auteur). In: Comptes rendus de l'Academie de Science, vol 33, no. 15, 29 September 1851, with the Fizeau paper occupying pp 349-355 in the weekly issue of pp (329)-360. This issue is cleanly removed from a larger bound volume and intact. Very crisp copy. In Very Good condition. $250
This is the first appearance of the results of what would become the reknowned Fizeau Experiments on the speed of light in a moving media, a shorter version of the full paper that wouldn't appear until eight years later (in December 1859).
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