Encyclopaedia Britannica biography of Arthur Eddington, covering the 1919 Principe eclipse expedition that confirmed a prediction of general relativity.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Stanley-Eddington
Source Typeencyclopedia
Reliability Tier1
General encyclopedia with editorial review; standard tertiary reference. Sources
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- Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Experiments, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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