29 May 1919
Solar Eclipse Relativity Test
British eclipse expeditions photograph stars near the Sun to test Einstein's predicted gravitational deflection.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Principe and Sobral in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
British eclipse expeditions photograph stars near the Sun to test Einstein's predicted gravitational deflection.
Provenance
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