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What Has the World Learned from Past Eclipses?

Photograph (bromide print) showing the instruments used by the British expedition sent from Sobral, Brazil, to observe the total solar eclipse on 29 May 1919. Sir Arthur Eddington of Cambridge University organized the eclipse expedition to try and test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. During the event, two heliostats with moving mirrors were used to direct… Read More »