Six papers by Victor Cremieu, all extracts from larger bound volumes of Comptes Rendus, 1905-1913. The six: $225
Crémieu, Victor. "Recherches sur la gravitation. Attraction observee entre gouttes liquides suspendues dans un liquid de mem densite”, in Comptes Rendus, 1905 volume 140, pp 80-83; offered with the following, all from the Comptes rendus:
- “Recherches sur la gravitation “, volume 141, 25 October 1905, pp 653-656 (#17)
- “Recherches sur la gravitation “, volume 141, 6 November 1905, #19, pp 713-715;
- “Recherches sur la gravitation”, volume 143, 1906, pp 887-889
- “Sur une ereur systematique qui limite la precision de l'experience de Caendish. Methode nouvelle pour l'etude de la gravitation”, 1910, volume 150, pp 863-866
- “Effects de la flexion aux points d'attache du fil d'une bal;ance de torsion”, 1913, volume 156, pp 617-620;
"Crémieu’s experiments were meant to test the dependence of gravitational attraction on the substance separating two test bodies. The experiments were of two types: in the first set, he measured the displacement of oil droplets in liquid, while in the second set, he relied on a custom-built torsion balance to measure the attraction of bodies in air and in water. Both sets of experiments produced results at odds with the Newtonian prediction, yet once again, Crémieu convinced himself that they were artifacts of his apparatus."
"Victor Crémieu (1872–1935) was born in Avignon, and obtained the Ph.D. in physics at the Sorbonne under Gabriel Lippmann’s direction in 1901. As a result of his experimental investigations of rotating electrified disks, Crémieu was led at first to deny the existence of a magnetic effect of convected electricity, predicted by Faraday and Maxwell, and first detected in 1876 by Henry Rowland. Crémieu later recognized the reality of Rowland’s effect, attributing his null results to an unsuspected masking phenomenon. He went on to perform delicate, but ultimately inconclusive experiments on gravitational attraction..."--from the Henri Poincare Papers website at the University of Nantes.
Lecat, Bibliographie de la Relativite, 479.
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