| Description | Correspondence from Ludvik Silberstein [1872-1948, physicist].
/1 Letter from L. Silberstein to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Anson Road, London, dated 22 December 1919. Silberstein writes about his article and thanks Lodge for his feedback. He sends the manuscript for submission to the Phil. Magazine.
/2 Letter from L. Silberstein to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Anson Road, London, dated 24 December 1919, with envelope. Silberstein sends thanks for Lodge's Philosophical Transactions Memoir. He explains his calculations relating to the Earth and the Sun and discusses the idea of a gravitational grip on the aether. He discusses Sagnac's experiments, which seem to be based on Lodge's work.
/3 Letter from L. Silberstein to Oliver Lodge, written from 4 Anson Road, London, dated 25 December 1919. Silberstein acknowledges that Sagnac's experiments are based entirely on Lodge's plans. He discusses ways of developing the experiment to test Einstein's new theory. He will propose the experiment to his friend Prof Rankine of Imperial College.
/4 Letter from L. Silberstein to Oliver Lodge, written from the Research Laboratory, Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, New York, dated 2 October 1924, with envelope. Silberstein sends thanks for the copy of Lodge's 'A Philosopher on Relativity'. He discusses R-determination in detail. |