DOC.
6
RESPONSE TO HARZER 43
Published
in
Astronomische Nachrichten
199
(1914):
cols. 47-48. Dated
Berlin-Dahlem,
18
August
1914,
published 29 August 1914.
[1]See
Harzer 1914b for his
reply.
[2]See
Einstein 1914l
(Doc.
4)
for Einstein's
comments
on
Harzer
1914a.
[3]In
this
reply
Harzer
pointed
out
that there
were
thin
layers
of air between the
eight prisms
of
the
apparatus
used
by Harress,
so
that
the
light
did
not move
in
glass
all the
time,
but
passed
through
air after
leaving
one
prism
and
before
entering
the
next
one.
He claimed that
k
had the
Fresnel value
(eq.
(1b) in
Einstein 1914l
[Doc.
4])
for
light entering
the first
prism
from the
outside and the Lorentz value
(eq.
(1c) in
Einstein 1914l
[Doc.
4])
for all other entries. His
conclusion
was
that
k
had the Fresnel value for
1/8
of the
light path
and
the
Lorentz
value for
the
rest
of the
path.