Site Represents a site. Show Point true Country Principe Organiser United Kingdom Place The town or city Principe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The British Expedition to the Island of Principe to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 29, 1919 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource 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. <p><a href="https://eclipse-history.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/the-controversial-british-led-eclipse-expeditions-of-1919-that-validated-general-relativity/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read article</a>.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 29/05/1919 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived tsee Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource am619@st-andrews.ac.uk Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,1.61036,7.39926; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT