On Aug. 21, 1914, a total solar eclipse temporarily darkened skies across Europe and Asia. Space History Archives👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/0-i4SV A young German astronomer and friend of Albert Einstein's, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, led an expedition to the Crimean Peninsula of Russia, where he hoped to record observations that would verify Albert Einstein's general relativity theory. This theory predicted that the light from distant stars appearing very close to the sun's edge should shift

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On May 29 1919 a solar eclipse offered scientists a rare opportunity to test Albert Einstein strange new ideas about the universe. For years the world of science had followed Newton laws but Einstein proposed a radical Theory of General Relativity in which gravity is the curvature of space and time. He predicted that the sun s immense gravity would bend starlight. Two expeditions led by British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Sobral in Brazil and Principe off West Africa and their ob