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Berlin Notebook Gravitational Lens Calculation

During work recorded in a 1912 notebook, Einstein calculated how a foreground mass could bend light from a background source and produce the geometry of a gravitational lens.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna in 1921
Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921. Photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer — public domain. Wikimedia Commons source.
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Berlin Notebook Gravitational Lens Calculation

1912 · Berlin · Germany · Astronomy

During work recorded in a 1912 notebook, Einstein calculated how a foreground mass could bend light from a background source and produce the geometry of a gravitational lens.

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