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Revised Solar Deflection Reaches Full Relativistic Value

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1915

Albert EinsteinNovember 1915

Berlin · Science / Astronomy

With the completed geometric treatment of gravity, Einstein obtained a solar light-deflection prediction approximately twice the value produced by his earlier equivalence-principle calculation.

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Albert Einstein

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