1920 Popular Mechanics clipping shows eclipse that confirmed light bends under gravity
generativist · x · 2026-11-12
A restored 1920 Popular Mechanics clipping reports British astronomers' solar eclipse observations: starlight passing the sun's limb deflected by 1.98 arcseconds (6% error), double the Newtonian prediction — confirming Einstein's general relativity and shaking Euclidean theories of space. The author restored it with a tool he built over two weekends.
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