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Category: Reluctant light

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  • Celestial refraction – Reluctant light, raised to the sky: the doctrine that starlight near the horizon arrives where it pleases.
  • Luminiferous aether – The real, discredited 19th-century medium for light – abandoned by physics in 1887, and never by the Aetheric Concord.
  • Unlonn–van Radewijn correspondence – Twenty-four years of total disagreement, twenty-two of them with one correspondent dead.

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