Talk:Eddington experiment

Pre-publication notes
Notes made during the drafting of the article are available at Talk:Eddington experiment/Archive 1. Many of the ideas there have not been followed up, but might be useful for further editing. Carcharoth (talk) 13:36, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Other articles
A note that the main content on the eclipse and the experiment now appear to be at the following three locations: Some work is needed to co-ordinate the content at these locations. Carcharoth (talk) 14:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Arthur Eddington
 * Eddington experiment
 * Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919

Recent articles
Some may be of use: Carcharoth (talk) 07:01, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Commemorating 100 years of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
 * Celebrating the Eclipse That Let Einstein Shine
 * 100th Anniversary Of The Solar Eclipse That Proved Einstein's General Relativity
 * 100 Years Ago, a Total Solar Eclipse Experiment Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
 * Eddington's Eclipse Experiment: 1919 and 2017

Sobral, Ceará

 * Should the article not say something about the observations at Sobral? There seems to be a monument in Sobral that honors the eclipse. See an image from the Portuguese Wikipedia: pt:Ficheiro:Alberteinsteinuva.jpg, which is featured in Sobral (Ceará) and Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú.
 * Some mention of the Eddington experiment should go into our article on Hyades (star cluster). EdJohnston (talk) 00:03, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for the pointer to that. Yes, that should go in. I had intended to include a fuller description of the Sobral part of the expeditions, but hadn't got to it yet. Do add something if you want to do so. There is a lot more that could be done here. I managed to completely miss a whole website about the eclipse and commemorations of the 100th anniversary, see Eclipse 1919. Doh! Carcharoth (talk) 23:38, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

pt:Museu do Eclipse as well. Really need someone familiar with the Brazilian (Portuguese) sources and websites. Carcharoth (talk) 23:48, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm four years later, but I have just added a expansion on the Sobral expedition. The "Revista Pesquisa" sources are translations from the Portuguese versions. I suspect that, between modern and old sources, it should be possible to expand that section into a full article. Erick Soares3 (talk) 13:24, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I have just found out that the National Observatory has produced 3 Portuguese language and 1 Portuguese/English language free ebooks on the eclipse observations. I'm curious enough to read it, and it may give a good amount of information to create a full article about that specific expedition (it could be interesting to contextualize the situation of Brazilian and LA astronomy at the time). Erick Soares3 (talk) 15:13, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you Erick Soares for adding this material and that below! I will try and take a closer look later (I don't have much time these days, but it is exciting to see new work on this article). Carcharoth (talk) 00:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Erick Soares3 (talk) 14:59, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Sources on Sobral
I have found a bunch of Portuguese language articles about the Sobral observations and I'm compiling everything here to organize and, in the future, add it in the article.

Papers about the Sobral observations;













Books on the subject;









Erick Soares3 (talk) 16:13, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * This magazine has several articles on the subject. Erick Soares3 (talk) 16:30, 11 April 2023 (UTC)