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\bibitem{Bradley:bio}
A.F.O'D. Alexander.
\newblock {J}ames {B}radley.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em Dictionary of {S}cientific
  {B}iography: {Vol II}}, pages 387--389. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,
  1970.

\bibitem{Aristotle:Nicomachean}
Aristotle.
\newblock {Nicomachean Ethics}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
  The Revised Oxford Translation, Volume 2}}, pages 1729--1867. {Princeton
  University Press}, Princeton, 1984.
\newblock Translated by W.D. Ross with revision by J.O. Urmson.

\bibitem{Aristotle:soul}
Aristotle.
\newblock {On the Soul}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
  The Revised Oxford Translation, Volume 1}}, pages 641--692. {Princeton
  University Press}, Princeton, 1984.
\newblock Translated by J.A. Smith.

\bibitem{Aristotle:sense}
Aristotle.
\newblock {Sense and Sensibilia}.
\newblock In Jonathan Barnes, editor, {\em {The Complete Works of Aristotle:
  The Revised Oxford Translation, Volume 1}}, pages 693--713. {Princeton
  University Press}, Princeton, 1984.
\newblock Translated by J.I. Beare.

\bibitem{Bacon:Novum}
Francis Bacon.
\newblock Novum organum.
\newblock In Peter Urbach and John Gibson, editors, {\em Novum Organum: With
  Other Parts of the Great Instauration}, pages 33--293. Open Court, Chicago,
  1620.
\newblock 1994 translation.

\bibitem{Beeckman:1629}
Isaac Beeckman.
\newblock {folio 340, 19 March 1629}.
\newblock In Christopher de~Waard, editor, {\em {Journal tenu par Isaac
  Beeckman de 1604 \`{a} 1634}}, volume iii, page 112. {Nijoff}, The Hague,
  1939-1953.

\bibitem{metre:def}
BIPM.
\newblock {\em Comptes Rendus des s\'{e}ances de la $17^e$ CGPM}.
\newblock BIPM, S\`{e}vres France, 1983.

\bibitem{Blake:Newton}
Ralph~M. Blake.
\newblock {Issac Newton and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method}.
\newblock In Edward~H. Madden, editor, {\em {Theories of Scientific Method: The
  Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century}}, pages 119--143. {University of
  Washington Press}, Seattle, 1966.

\bibitem{Box:science}
G.E.P. Box.
\newblock Science and statistics.
\newblock {\em Journal of the American Statistical Society}, ??:?? -- ??, 198?

\bibitem{cohen:1940}
I.B. Cohen.
\newblock Roemer and the first determination of the velocity of light.
\newblock {\em Isis}, 31:327 -- 379, 1940.

\bibitem{nauthist:1968}
Charles~H. Cotter.
\newblock {\em A History of Nautical Astronomy}.
\newblock American Elsevier, New York, 1968.

\bibitem{Galileo:starry}
Galileo Galilei.
\newblock {The Starry Messenger}.
\newblock In Stillman Drake, editor, {\em {Discoveries And Opinions of
  Galileo}}, pages 21--58. {Anchor Books, Doubleday}, New York, 1610.
\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Galileo:duchess}
Galileo Galilei.
\newblock {Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine Grand Duchess of Tuscany}
  concerning the use of {Biblical} quotations in matters of {Science}.
\newblock In Stillman Drake, editor, {\em {Discoveries And Opinions of
  Galileo}}, pages 173--216. {Anchor Books, Doubleday}, New York, 1615.
\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Galileo:1638}
Galileo Galilei.
\newblock {\em Two New Sciences Including Centers of Gravity and Force of
  Percussion}.
\newblock The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1638.
\newblock Translated, with introduction and notes, by Stillman Drake, 1974.

\bibitem{Drake:disc}
Galileo Galilei.
\newblock {\em Discoveries and Opinions of {G}alileo}.
\newblock Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York, 1957.
\newblock Translated with an introduction and notes by Stillman Drake.

\bibitem{Gaukroger:Descartes}
Stephen Gaukroger.
\newblock {\em Descartes: An Intellectual Biography}.
\newblock Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.

\bibitem{Romer:bio}
Zdene\v{e}k Kobal.
\newblock {Ole Christensen R\"omer}.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em {Dictionary of Scientific Biography:
  Vol XI}}, pages 525--527. {Charles Scribner's Sons}, New York, 1975.

\bibitem{Lindberg:medieval}
David~C. Lindberg.
\newblock {Medieval Latin Theories of the Speed of Light}.
\newblock In Ren\'{e} Taton, editor, {\em {Roemer et la Vitesse de la
  Lumi\`{e}re}}, pages 45--72. Librairie Philosophique J. VRIN, Paris, 1978.

\bibitem{aamich:1880}
Albert~A. Michelson.
\newblock Experimental determination of the velocity of light made at the {U.S.
  Naval Academy, Annapolis}.
\newblock {\em Astronomical Papers}, 1:109--145, 1880.

\bibitem{Newcomb:1882}
Simon Newcomb.
\newblock Measures of the velocity of light made under the direction of the
  {Secretary of the Navy} during the years 1880-'82.
\newblock {\em Astronomical Papers}, 3:107--239, 1882.

\bibitem{Descartes:speed}
Spyros Sakellariadis.
\newblock Descartes' experimental proof of the infinite velocity of light and
  huygens' rejoinder.
\newblock {\em Archive for History of Exact Sciences}, 26:1 -- 12, 1982.

\bibitem{stigler:robust}
Stephen~M. Stigler.
\newblock Do robust estimators work with {REAL} data? (with discussion).
\newblock {\em Annals of Statistics}, 5:1055--1098, 1977.

\bibitem{stig:hist}
Stephen~M. Stigler.
\newblock {\em The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before
  1900}.
\newblock Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1986.

\bibitem{swenson:1972}
Loyd~S. {Swenson Jr.}
\newblock {\em The Ethereal Aether: A History of the {Michelson-Morley-Miller}
  Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930}.
\newblock University of Texas Press, Austin Texas, 1972.

\bibitem{Cassini:bio}
Ren\'{e} Taton.
\newblock {Gian Domenico Cassini}.
\newblock In C.C. Gillispie, editor, {\em {Dictionary of Scientific Biography:
  Vol III}}, pages 100--104. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1971.

\end{thebibliography}