Lick Observatory and head of the Wallal Expedition, in a statement, Say:
The photographs of the eclipse of the sun confirm Einstein's theory. The photographs we secured with two specially designed cameras with lenses having apertures of Sin., in diameter and focal lengths of 15 feet. Four sensitive plate, 17 inches square, each recorded the images of several scores of stars in the group surrounding the sun, though in reality these stars were mally million times as far away from us as the sun. The same cameras were used three months earlier at Tahiti to photograph the same stars when they were in night sky and without the sun in their midst.
Einstein said that his theory must stand three astronomical tests successfully or be revised, one of the three tests consisting. of the eclipse problem, with which we are now concerned. Dr. Trumpler and myself in recent months each measured three or four Australian Plates and three corresponding night plates completely and independently. The number of star images measured on the plates varied from 62 as a minimum to 84 as a maximum.
Four out of six tests of measures have been subject to rigorous mathematical treatment, and five results for the bending of stellar rays just grazing the sun's edge are in close acco} vary from. a minimum of 1.59 seconds of are to 1.86. The average of the five values is 1.74 seconds of are."'
"This," Dr. Campbell continued, "G3 as close as the most ardent proponent of the Einstein theory could hope for."
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