Albert Einstein1913
Einstein and Michele Besso calculated Mercury's anomalous perihelion motion with the provisional gravitational theory, creating a detailed test that the Entwurf equations failed to reproduce correctly.
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Einstein and Michele Besso calculated Mercury's anomalous perihelion motion with the provisional gravitational theory, creating a detailed test that the Entwurf equations failed to reproduce correctly.
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