Arthur Eddington was innocent! The trend for debunking science's simple narratives can be overdone, says Philip Ball. Philip Ball There was once a time when the history of science was ...

Arthur Eddington, director of the Cambridge Observatory in the U.K., waited for the Sun to emerge. The remains of a morning thunderstorm could ruin everything.

Sir Arthur and Sir James are, at first glance, as like as two peas. They are both practicing astronomers of great renown. Astronomers value the Eddington work on the internal constitution of the ...

1919: During a total solar eclipse, Sir Arthur Eddington performs the first experimental test of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The findings made Einstein a celebrity overnight ...

On May 29, 1919, British astronomers Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington positioned themselves in the path of a total solar eclipse, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, for an experiment putting ...

Sir Arthur Eddington is a renowned physicist at Cambridge University and an expert in the measurement of the physical world. He along with all of his colleagues are also avowed Newtonians.

When astrophysicist Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was told that some people believed that only three scientists understood Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, he quietly said: “I ...

Ultraluminous X-ray sources are objects that shine 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists have said they are too bright to exist, as they break the Eddington limit.