Water-Filled telescopes and the Pre-Histoiy offresnel's ether dragging

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Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 499-564

  Pedersen, Kurt Moller ^a   Acloque, Paul ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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