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The Sky that Confirmed Einstein: the City of the Cearense Serton Where an Eclipse of 1919 Changed the History of Physics

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To prove that gravity is capable of twisting the light, Albert Einstein needed something rare: the sun hidden in the middle of the day and stars visible around it. In Sobral, in Ceará, this happened on May 29, 1919, and the photographs taken in the attic helped transform a difficult theory into news...
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To prove that gravity is capable of twisting the light, Albert Einstein needed something rare: the sun hidden in the middle of the day and stars visible around it. In Sobral, in Ceará, this happened on May 29, 1919, and the photographs taken in the attic helped transform a difficult theory into news...

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