The Eclipse that Gave Einstein Reason and Other Findings in the Dark

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On May 29, 1919, a group of British astronomers ventured into the African island of Príncipe and near Sobral, in Brazil, to observe a very long total solar eclipse of almost seven minutes. There, after fighting mosquitoes, extreme temperatures and even thieves monkeys, the researchers Sir Frank Watson Dyson and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington took advantage of the Moon covering the light of the solar disk to measure the position of a series of star…