British and Dutch-German Expeditions to Christmas Island to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1922
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Title
British and Dutch-German Expeditions to Christmas Island to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1922
Description
An expedition from the Greenwich Observatory and a joint Dutch-German expedition traveled to Christmas island to make observations of the total solar eclipse in May 1922. Both teams sought confirmatory evidence for Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity which the Greenwich team had found in 1919, although with large error intervals. Tragically, both teams were clouded out, but the north of the island had clear views of the eclipse.
Source
tsee
Date
21/09/1922
Contributor
am619@st-andrews.ac.uk
Type
Site
Identifier
15
Spatial Coverage
current,-10.5595,105.6455;
Europeana
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Place
Christmas Island
Show Point
true
Country
Christmas Island
Citation
“British and Dutch-German Expeditions to Christmas Island to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1922,” Virtual Museum, accessed May 18, 2024, https://eclipse.curious-sta.org/omeka/items/show/15.
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