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== Sources and further reading ==
Collins, Harry; Pinch, Trevor (1993). The Golem: What everyone should know about science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521477360.
Cowen, Ron (May 2019). Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes (Illustrated ed.). Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-97496-8.
Crelinsten, Jeffrey (May 2006). Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12310-3.
Gates, Sylvester J. Jr; Pelletier, Cathie (2019). Proving Einstein right: The daring expeditions that changed how we look at the universe (First ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1541762251.
Kennefick, Daniel (2019). No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691183862.
Popper, Karl (2002) [1935]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge. ISBN 0-203-99462-0.
Stanley, Matthew (2019). Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I. Dutton. ISBN 978-1-5247-4541-7.

== External links ==
Eclipse 1919, website about the eclipse, the expeditions and centenary events
"Eddington's Eclipse and Einstein's Celebrity" Discovery (audio) episode (from BBC World Service)
"The man who made Einstein world-famous" (BBC News, 24 May 2019)
"Matthew Stanley and Einstein's War". Archived 2020-07-30 at the Wayback Machine (Clarke Center for Human Imagination, UCSD podcast)
"100 years on: the pictures that changed our view of the universe" (The Observer, 12 May 2019)
"How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Made Einstein the World's Most Famous Scientist" (Discover magazine, May 2019)
"A Total Solar Eclipse 100 Years Ago Proved Einstein's General Relativity" (Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2019)
"Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse" (Nature, April 2019)
"Arthur S. Eddington: From Physics to Philosophy and Back Again" (Eddington Conference, 27–29 May 2019, Paris)
Roça Sundy  Abandoned plantation where the experiment was carried out.
Small memorial in honour of the experiments carried out here in 1919 to find empirical evidence for the theory of relativity during a solar eclipse