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title: "Eddington experiment"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:39:05.943562+00:00"
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== Sources and further reading ==
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Collins, Harry; Pinch, Trevor (1993). The Golem: What everyone should know about science. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521477360.
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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.
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Crelinsten, Jeffrey (May 2006). Einstein's Jury: The Race to Test Relativity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12310-3.
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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.
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Kennefick, Daniel (2019). No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691183862.
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Popper, Karl (2002) [1935]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge. ISBN 0-203-99462-0.
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Stanley, Matthew (2019). Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I. Dutton. ISBN 978-1-5247-4541-7.
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== External links ==
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Eclipse 1919, website about the eclipse, the expeditions and centenary events
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"Eddington's Eclipse and Einstein's Celebrity" Discovery (audio) episode (from BBC World Service)
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"The man who made Einstein world-famous" (BBC News, 24 May 2019)
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"Matthew Stanley and Einstein's War". Archived 2020-07-30 at the Wayback Machine (Clarke Center for Human Imagination, UCSD podcast)
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"100 years on: the pictures that changed our view of the universe" (The Observer, 12 May 2019)
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"How the 1919 Solar Eclipse Made Einstein the World's Most Famous Scientist" (Discover magazine, May 2019)
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"A Total Solar Eclipse 100 Years Ago Proved Einstein's General Relativity" (Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2019)
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"Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse" (Nature, April 2019)
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"Arthur S. Eddington: From Physics to Philosophy and Back Again" (Eddington Conference, 27–29 May 2019, Paris)
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Roça Sundy Abandoned plantation where the experiment was carried out.
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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 |