Hippolyte Fizeaursquos research program on ether drag consisted of a sequence of optical experiments and theoretical considerations aimed at clarifying the interaction between the ether and moving matter to reveal the motion of the Earth through the ether. In addition to Fizeaursquos published papers, my reconstruction of his research program is based on his unpublished drafts, sketches, and experimental data.These reveal an increasingly complex interplay between his experimental setups,unexpected results, and theoretical convictions. I argue that publishing is an integral part of experimental research rather than a secondary activity undertaken after the ldquotruerdquo laboratory research has been completed. Accordingly, Fizeaursquos research program can best be understood as a long quest for a publishable experiment. I show that to Fizeau, to be publishable meant achieving an expected positive experimental result.This publication strategy deeply influenced the design of his experiments as well as what he and his audience regarded as successful experimental research. Key words. Hippolyte Fizeau - Léon Foucault - François Arago - Augustin Fresnel - Jacques Babinet - ether theory - stellar aberration - optics of moving bodies - publication
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Frercks, Jan;
(2001)
Die Forschungspraxis Hippolyte Fizeaus: Eine Charakterisierung ausgehend von der Replikation seines Ätherwindexperiments von 1852
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Frercks, Jan;
(2004)
Publish and Perish: Das Verhältnis von Publikation zu Theorie und Experiment in Fizeaus Forschungsprogramm zur Äthermitführung
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Frercks, Jan;
(2009)
Going Right and Making It Wrong: The Reception of Fizeau's Ether-Drift Experiment of 1859
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Frercks, Jan;
(2000)
Creativity and Technology in Experimentation: Fizeau's Terrestrial Determination of the Speed of Light
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(2007)
Immaterial Devices
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(2011)
Reconsidering Experiments
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(1982)
Ätherdrift und Relativität: Michelson, Einstein, Fizeau und Hoek
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(1984)
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(2006)
O vácuo de Pascal versus o ether de Noël: uma controvérsia experimental?
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Klein, Ursula;
(2009)
In the Thick of Organic Matter
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(2005)
Experiments at the Intersection of Experimental History, Technological Inquiry, and Conceptually Driven Analysis: A Case Study from Early Nineteenth-Century France
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(2011)
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy: The Ether Saga Revisited
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(2002)
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(2009)
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(2010)
James Maccullagh's Ether: An Optical Route to Maxwell's Equations?
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(2005)
Mechanics and Electromagnetism in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Dynamics of Maxwell's Ether
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Salvo D'Agostino;
(2016)
What is light? What is ether? An overwiew of Einstein’s problem on the abolition of ether and on its inheliminable presence in General Relativity
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(2008)
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