Literary notes about aether (AI summary)
The word "aether" is used in literature as a multifaceted concept that bridges the physical and the metaphysical. In ancient texts it signifies a pure, transcendent substance—often portrayed as the quintessence or "upper air," crucial not only for binding the cosmos but also as a marker of divinity and order ([1], [2], [3]). In scientific and philosophical discourses, it emerges as the medium believed to carry light and influence motion, highlighting its role in theories of gravitation and the transmission of energy ([4], [5], [6], [7]). Meanwhile, poetic renderings transform aether into a vivid image of dynamic space and ethereal landscapes, evoking both literal and metaphorical dimensions of the heavens ([8], [9], [10]).
- And there are varieties of air, as for example, the pure aether, the opaque mist, and other nameless forms.
— from Timaeus by Plato - In their vaster conceptions of Chaos, Erebus, Aether, Night, and the like, the first rude attempts at generalization are dimly seen.
— from Timaeus by Plato - From Night was born Aether, the Upper Air, and from Night and Erebus wedded there was born Day.
— from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum - This medium is called the luminiferous aether .
— from Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. V. 1-2 by John Tyndall - Light, therefore, like heat, is due to a periodic wave motion set up in the Aether by the vibrating atomic motion of heated or luminous bodies.
— from Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper - That the Aether is universal is proved by the phenomena of light.
— from Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper - We must also remember that the Aether is rotating round the sun as that body proceeds through space.
— from Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper - Only after the blue aether had been perceived and named, was it possible to conceive and speak of the sky as active, as an agent, as a god.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller - Further left all the scene is filled with the rising bulk of Aether Mountain.
— from Plays of Near & Far by Lord Dunsany - Queen : The silence is like music on Aether Mountain.
— from Plays of Near & Far by Lord Dunsany
