No Shadow of a Doubt : : The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity /

No Shadow of a Doubt : : The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity / / Daniel Kennefick.

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the centu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
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Kennefick, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 25 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue May 29, 1919
  • 1. The Experiment That Weighed Light
  • 2. Eclipses
  • 3. Two Pacifists, Einstein and Eddington
  • 4. Europe in Its Madness
  • 5. Preparations in Time of War
  • 6. The Opportunity of the Century?
  • 7. Tools of the Trade
  • 8. The Improvised Expedition
  • 9. Outward Bound
  • 10. Through Cloud, Hopefully
  • 11. Not Only Because of Theory
  • 12. Lights All Askew in the Heavens
  • 13. Theories and Experiments
  • 14. The Unbearable Heaviness of Light
  • 15. The Problem of Scientific Bias
  • Epilogue: Where Are They Now?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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