Einstein's contribution to physics was so great he still remains a superstar. But physicists Arthur Eddington, Hermann Weyl and mathematician David Hilbert were not so fortunate, with some facing ...

Sir Arthur Eddington’s team sought to take advantage of the daytime darkness provided by the eclipse to observe and photograph stars nearest the sun at the moment. The whole point of the ...

On March 29, 1919, that opportunity came. British Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Príncipe Island off the western coast of Africa. His team photographed starfields during the eclipse ...

The 1919 solar eclipse experiment focused on the stars In order to test Einstein’s idea, English astronomers named Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson launched expeditions to chart stars during the ...