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It is well known that Stokes's aether dragged theory is one of the best classical aether theories, since it is in agreement with almost all experimental results (see for instance R. Resnick's popular textbook: Introduction to Special Relativity). This theory is usually dismissed on the grounds of two natural phenomena, which are said to be "unexplainable" in Stokes's conceptual context: Bradley's astronomical annual aberration, and the speed of light in moving water (Fizeau's experiment). In this paper, a simple "time-delay" model for the behaviour of light in a transparent medium is given, which at least gets rid of the second of the two previous objections.

1. Introduction
2. What does "special" mean?
3. Sagnac effect
4. The light?s speed for non-inertial observers
5. The Principle of (Special) Relativity and the "twins paradox"
6. Roemer observations
7. Bradley aberration
8. Is it true that electromagnetism is relativistic? That "Classical Physics" is the "limit" of SR for low speeds?

By a comparison between maxwell's electrodynamics classically interpreted (MT) and relativistic electrodynamics (RED), this paper discusses whether the "asymmetries" in MT mentioned by A. Einstein in his 1905 relativity paper are only of a conceptual nature of rather involve specific empirical claims. It is shown that in fact MT predicts strongly asymmetric behaviour for very simple interactions, and an analysis is made of the extent of the ?symmetry? achieved by means of relativistic postulates. A "low" velocity experiment is suggested which could provide another test of the accuracy of RED with respect to MT.

In connection with a note by Rindler on relativity and electromagnetism, it is shown that classically interpreted electromagnetism and special relativity already diverge in their predictions on the behavior of a very simple electrodynamical system, even for 'low' velocities.