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1914 (June 5) autographed note from A.S. Eddington to 'Silas'…
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Melbourne
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14-Feb-2013
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1914 (June 5) autographed note from A.S. Eddington to 'Silas' Wright, on 'Royal Astronomical Society' letterhead, suggesting Wright accompany him to an R.A.S. dinner, where his 'ambitions for geodetic apparatus' could be advanced in conversation with Herbert Hall Turner, Secretary of the R.A.S. Sir Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), was a British astrophysicist. In addition to his participation in the British Antarctic Expedition he also conducted an expedition to observe the Solar eclipse of May 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of the Theory of Relativity
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Memorabilia: Autographs