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== Further reading == === Historical references === {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal |first=O. |last=Rømer |author-link=Ole Rømer |year=1676 |title=Démonstration touchant le mouvement de la lumière trouvé par M. Römer de l'Academie Royale des Sciences |url=http://www.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Roemer_1676.pdf |journal=[[Journal des sçavans]] |pages=223–236 |language=fr |access-date=10 March 2020 |archive-date=8 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908221513/http://www.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Roemer_1676.pdf |url-status=dead }} ** Translated as {{Cite journal |year = 1677 |title = A Demonstration concerning the Motion of Light |url = http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Roemer-1677/Roemer-1677.html |journal = [[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]] |issue = 136 |pages = 893–894 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070729214326/http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Roemer-1677/Roemer-1677.html |archive-date = 29 July 2007 |doi = 10.1098/rstl.1677.0024 |volume = 12 |bibcode = 1677RSPT...12..893. |doi-access = free }} * {{Cite journal |first=E. |last=Halley |author-link=Edmond Halley |year=1694 |title=Monsieur Cassini, his New and Exact Tables for the Eclipses of the First Satellite of Jupiter, reduced to the Julian Stile and Meridian of London |journal=[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]] |volume=18 |issue=214 |pages=237–256 |doi=10.1098/rstl.1694.0048 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1694RSPT...18..237C }} * {{Cite journal |first=H. L. |last=Fizeau |author-link=Hippolyte Fizeau |year=1849 |title=Sur une expérience relative à la vitesse de propagation de la lumière |url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/dossiers/Fizeau/Fizeau_pdf/CR1849_p90.pdf |journal=[[Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences]] |volume=29 |pages=90–92, 132 |language=fr }} * {{Cite journal |first=J. L. |last=Foucault |author-link=Léon Foucault |year=1862 |title=Détermination expérimentale de la vitesse de la lumière: parallaxe du Soleil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYIIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA216 |journal=[[Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences]] |volume=55 |pages=501–503, 792–796 |language=fr }} * {{Cite journal |first=A. A. |last=Michelson |author-link=Albert A. Michelson |year=1878 |title=Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11753 |journal=[[Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]] |volume=27 |pages=71–77 }} * {{Cite journal |first1=A. A. |last1=Michelson |first2=F. G. |last2=Pease |author2-link=Francis G. Pease |first3=F. |last3=Pearson |title=Measurement of the Velocity of Light in a Partial Vacuum |journal=[[Astrophysical Journal]] |volume=82 |pages=26–61 |year=1935 |issue=2091 |doi=10.1086/143655 |pmid=17816642 |bibcode=1935ApJ....82...26M |s2cid=123010613 }} * {{Cite journal |first=S. |last=Newcomb |author-link=Simon Newcomb |year=1886 |title=The Velocity of Light |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=34 |issue=863 |pages=29–32 |doi=10.1038/034029c0 |doi-access=free |bibcode = 1886Natur..34...29. }} * {{Cite journal |first=J. |last=Perrotin |author-link=Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin |year=1900 |title=Sur la vitesse de la lumière |journal=[[Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences]] |volume=131 |pages=731–734 |language=fr }} {{refend}} === Modern references === {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book |first=L. |last=Brillouin |author-link=Léon Brillouin |year=1960 |title=Wave propagation and group velocity |publisher=[[Academic Press]] }} * {{Cite book |first=J. D. |last=Jackson |author-link=John David Jackson (physicist) |year=1975 |title=Classical Electrodynamics |edition=2 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-30932-1 }} * {{Cite book |first=G. |last=Keiser |year=2000 |title=Optical Fiber Communications |page=[https://archive.org/details/opticalfibercomm00gerd/page/32 32] |edition=3 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-232101-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/opticalfibercomm00gerd/page/32 }} * {{Cite book |last=Ng |first=Y. J. |year=2004 |chapter=Quantum Foam and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RntpN7OesBsC |editor=Amelino-Camelia, G |editor2=Kowalski-Glikman, J |title=Planck Scale Effects in Astrophysics and Cosmology |pages=321ff |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-25263-4 }} * {{Cite book |last1=Helmcke |first1=J. |last2=Riehle |first2=F. |year=2001 |chapter=Physics behind the definition of the meter |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WE22Fez60EcC&pg=PA453 |editor=Quinn, T. J. |editor2=Leschiutta, S. |editor3=Tavella, P. |title=Recent advances in metrology and fundamental constants |page=453 |publisher=[[IOS Press]] |isbn=978-1-58603-167-1 }} * {{Cite arXiv |last=Duff |first=M. J. |author-link=Michael James Duff |year=2004 |title=Comment on time-variation of fundamental constants |eprint=hep-th/0208093 }} {{refend}}
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