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Mercury Perihelion

Explains Mercury's anomalous perihelion advance using the emerging general theory of relativity.

Albert Einstein photographed in Princeton in 1947
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Mercury Perihelion

18 November 1915 · Berlin · United States of America · Astronomy

Explains Mercury's anomalous perihelion advance using the emerging general theory of relativity.

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