The British Expedition to the Island of Principe to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919

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The British Expedition to the Island of Principe to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919

Description

The Principe party of the expedition organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee in England to measure the deflection of stellar rays by the Sun's gravitational field. Whilst misfortune negatively affected their observations, this expedition would still be perhaps the most famous expedition in history due to the international fame it brought to Albert Einstein and his Theory of General Relativity.

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Source

tsee

Date

29/05/1919

Contributor

am619@st-andrews.ac.uk

Type

Site

Identifier

10

Spatial Coverage

current,1.61036,7.39926;

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Europeana Type

TEXT

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Place

Principe

Show Point

true

Country

Principe

Organiser

United Kingdom

Citation

“The British Expedition to the Island of Principe to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919,” Virtual Museum, accessed March 15, 2025, https://eclipse.curious-sta.org/omeka/items/show/10.

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