Albert Einstein18 November 1915
Einstein used the emerging general theory to account for Mercury's unexplained perihelion advance, obtaining the observed residual shift that earlier gravitational models had failed to reproduce.
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Einstein used the emerging general theory to account for Mercury's unexplained perihelion advance, obtaining the observed residual shift that earlier gravitational models had failed to reproduce.
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