Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Objects of Observation. There were two chief purposes which motivated the scientists who carried huge pieces of apparatus including two telescopes over 60 ft. long to the tiny spots where observations were possible: 1) To study the "Einstein effect" - to determine the amount which the light rays of stars are deflected in passing close to the sun; 2) To study the nature of the sun by taking pictures of its corona and outer layers...
...publicity given to the January papers led one to believe that this is the manuscript of Einstein instead of a manuscript of Einstein. I may say that no word of Professor Einstein has ever lent color to that notion. His paper is but one of a series of which it is neither the first nor the last, nor in any notable way distinguished from the others...
...have this on the basis of direct advices from Professor Einstein himself. His correspondence bears the tone of scholarly dignity and magnanimity...
...Cardinal O'Connells recent attack on Einstein as an atheist (see p. 44). Mathematician Wiener made this reply...
...pretended incomprehensibility of the Einstein theory has been used as capital by professional anti-Einsteinians. These have had a recent recruit in a churchman of prominence, who has made his inability to understand it sufficient cause to utter a warning to the layman not to be misled by such tempting obscurities. Without prejudice to the cause of religion I may remark that theological discussions have not at all times been distinguished by their character of lucidity...