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Revised Solar Light-Bending Value

Using the completed theory, obtains the full gravitational deflection predicted for starlight grazing the Sun, approximately twice his earlier 1911 estimate.

Albert Einstein in a 1912 portrait — Albert Einstein, 1912. Photograph by J. F. Langhans — public domain. Wikimedia Commons source.

Revised Solar Light-Bending Value

November 1915 · Berlin · United States of America · Astronomy

Using the completed theory, obtains the full gravitational deflection predicted for starlight grazing the Sun, approximately twice his earlier 1911 estimate.

Revised Solar Light-Bending Value

Revised Solar Light-Bending Value

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