Sources and Outside Material



Journal Articles and Publications:

Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton
A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts by Thomas Young
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field by James Clerk Maxwell
A treatise on electricity and magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell
On the The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether  by  Albert Michelson and Edward Morley
The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Aether by Hendrik Lorentz
Attempt of a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies by Hendrik Lorentz
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by Albert Einstein

Books:
"A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: From the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century" by Edmund Taylor Whittaker
"Ether: the Nothing that Connects Everything" by Joe Milutis


Wikipedia Articles:

Light                        Waves                 Aether Theories

Luminiferous Aether                      Michelson-Morley Experiment

Lorentz Aether Theory                  Electromagnetic Radiation