Einstein’s Eclipse
The photo above is a positive image of one of the photographic plates taken in Sobral, Brazil, during the 1919 total eclipse of the sun. The data from this and other images taken at the time were used by Dyson, Eddington and Davidson (1920) in the first independent confirmation of the gravitational deflection of light as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. CONFIRMING EINSTEIN’S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY In 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity. In 1916,…