On May 29, 1919, a total solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory ...

Xhosa Chief Sandile Mgolombane kaNgqika is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain J Lonsdale. A ...

Einstein's aim was to explain electromagnetism as a geometric property of four-dimensional spacetime. He continued this work until his death in 1955. The work was not completed. Arthur Eddington ...

Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public ...

Sir Arthur Eddington at Cambridge University organised the eclipse trip to try and test Einstein's Theory of Relativity. During the event, two heliostats with moveable mirrors were used to direct ...

following the solar eclipse experiment conducted in May 1919 by British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington – the experiment that confirmed Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity ... British astronomers Arthur Stanley Eddington and Frank Watson Dyson showed that the sun's gravity well deflected light from distant stars ...

He wasn't the only one. Sir Arthur Eddington was the secretary of Britain's Royal Astronomical Society and Einstein's main champion in the English-speaking world. He translated general relativity ...

Take Eddington, for example, perhaps the greatest scientist you have never heard of. The Cambridge astronomer and physicist proved Einstein correct in his work analysing a 1919 eclipse ...