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How did we find out about the speed of light?

by Isaac Asimov, David Wool

A history of the scientific study of the speed of light, tracing investigations from Galileo's seventeenth-century experiments to modern discoveries involving the theory of relativity.

Accession 8761 ISBN 0802766374 Publisher Walker and Company
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David Wool, Isaac Asimov
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