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Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light

Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

By

Albert A. Michelson,
Master U.S. Navy.




Note.



The probability that the most accurate method of determining the solar
parallax now available is that resting on the measurement of the velocity
of light, has led to the acceptance of the following paper as one of the
series having in view the increase of our knowledge of the celestial
motions. The researches described in it, having been made at the United
States Naval Academy, though at private expense, were reported to the