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Description: | Mounted photograph (passe partout) showing the instruments used at Sobral, Brazil, during the total solar eclipse of 1919 May 29. The expedition organised by Sir Arthur Eddington of the Royal Greenwich Observatory used photographs taken during the eclipse to measure the deflection of star light adjacent to the Sun as predicted by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | refracting telescopes black-and-white print (photograph) ancillary instrument astronomical instruments solar eclipse heliostats (astronomical) | Temporal: | 1919 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Royal Observatory, Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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