Trust in expert testimony: Eddington's 1919 eclipse expedition and the British response to general relativity

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2008.08.003MaRDI QIDQ652793zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Almassi

Publication date 17 December 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.08.003

zbMATH Keywords

relativityEinsteinexpertisetestimonyeclipseEddington

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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