A Determination of the Deflection of Light

by the Sun’s Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919 by F. W. Dyson, C. Davidson, . A. S.

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First edition

“Thus the results of the expeditions to Sobral and Principe can leave little doubt that a deflection of light takes place in the neighborhood of the sun and that it is of the amount demanded by Einstein’s generalised theory of relativity, as attributable to the sun’s gravitational field. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF ARTHUR EDDINGTON’S REPORT CONFIRMING EINSTEIN’S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY.

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