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Solar eclipse

Solar eclipse

Arthur S. Eddington, photographer
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/1334
Contributor: Arthur S. Eddington, photographer
Identifier: EB 225
Subject: Solar eclipses--1919
Date: 1919
Type: Image
Format: Sepia
Repository: Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection: Photograph collection - Einstein-- EB Series-barn collection\21-EB PHOTOS-A.E. other (1 of 1)
Rights: Permission to use this image must be requested from the Institute's Archives. Please contact archives@ias.edu.

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The images taken by Arthur S. Eddington on May 29, 1919, of a total solar eclipse were the earliest empirical tests seeking confirmation of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Text appears on the front (in reverse) and back of this print. The verso text, in French, reads: Eclipse totale de soleil, 29 Mai 1919, Couronne, exp. 12 sec.

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