How Mercury and Starlight Overthrew Newton

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Albert EinsteinHistorical profile·​#5756·​June 1911·​AI-assisted
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Gravity bends light. Starlight passing the edge of the Sun is bent by about 0.83 arcseconds.

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William Wallace CampbellHistorical profile·​#5757·​August 21, 1914·​AI-assisted

Clouds covered the Sun during the eclipse, so we couldn’t measure how much the starlight was bent.

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