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Lick Observatory's Expedition to Brovary to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August, 1914

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A team from the Lick Observatory in California, alongside their original plan for the eclipse, were prepared to perform the experiment to measure the deflection of stellar rays in order to verify Einstein's theories on the deflection of light. Due to cloud and war, the expedition did not go to plan.

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