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Space Time and Gravitation (1920)
by Arthur Stanley Eddington
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SPACETIME

AND

GRAVITATION


An Outline of the General
Relativity Theory


by

A. S. Eddington, M.A., M.Sc., F.R.S.

Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental
Philosophy, Cambridge


CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1920

Cambridge University Press

C. F. Clay, Manager

London : Fetter Lane, E.C. 4

New York : The Macmillan Co.

Bombay
Calcutta Macmillan And Co., Ltd.
Madras

Toronto : The Macmillan Co. Of Canada, Ltd.

Tokyo : Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha

All Rights Reserved

C. Davidson

ECLIPSE INSTRUMENTS AT SOBRAL

Contents

  1. Eclipse Instruments at Sobral
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    Frontispiece
  2. ProloguePAGE
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    1
  4. Chapter I
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    17
  6. Chapter II
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    30
  8. Chapter III
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    45
  10. Chapter IV
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    63
  12. Chapter V
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    77
  14. Chapter VI
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    93
  16. Chapter VII
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    110
  18. Chapter VIII
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    123
  20. Chapter IX
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    136
  22. Chapter X
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    152
  24. Chapter XI
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    167
  26. Chapter XII
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    180
  28. Appendix
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    202
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    210