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 Frank Watson Dyson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Charles Davidson

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First edition

London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1920. First edition, in the form in which the Royal Astronomical Society issued it to its own Fellows, and with the printed errata slip, keyed to both paginations, that the bound journal does not carry, of the report of the two British eclipse expeditions of 1919 — the forty-three pages that turned Einstein’s general theory of relativity from a prediction into a measurement and

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