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Solar Eclipse, 1919, Negative Image

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe near Africa to watch the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919. During the eclipse, he took pictures of the stars in the region around the Sun. According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field. This effect is noticeable only during eclipses, since otherwise the Sun's brightness obscures the affected stars. Eddington showed that Newtonian gravitation could be interpreted to predict half the shift predicted by Einstein. This image has been cropped and cleaned.
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Solar Eclipse, 1919, Negative Image
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe near Africa to watch the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919. During the eclipse, he took pictures of the stars in the region around the Sun. According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field. This effect is noticeable only during eclipses, since otherwise the Sun's brightness obscures the affected stars. Eddington showed that Newtonian gravitation could be interpreted to predict half the shift predicted by Einstein. This image has been cropped and cleaned.
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5400 x 6940 px | 107.2 MB
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45.7 x 58.8 cm | 18.0 x 23.1 in (300 dpi)
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