Getting rid of the Ether. Could Physics have achieved it sooner, with better assistance from Philosophy?

Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 22 (3):353-374 (2009)
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The history of the luminiferous ether is sketched with a view to ascertaining what factors may have kept this idea alive until 1905, when Einstein declared it superfluous.

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10.1387/theoria.457

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