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EINSTEIN THEORY WRONG ? AMERICAN’S DISCOVERIES. Reuter’s Telegram-. 4 ' —-* (Received October 14, 8'.30’"p.m.) VANCOUVER, October 13. Captain T. J. See, professor of mathematics in the United. States Navy, and Government Astronomer at Mare Island, California, declared in an address before the California Academy of Scienoes at' San Frarjpisco that ho Rad made a series oLdUvscpverihs indicating the complete tripm-ph 7 of the Newtonian theory oT universal gravitation over the Einstein theory of relativity Captain Sep .“asserted be was able to explain under 'the Newtonian hypothesis the deflection of starlight passing near the f.un at the time of a solas eclipse, as observed by the British expedition to Brazil on May 29th, 1919, and bv the Crocker expedition of the Lick Observatory to Australia in 1922. By his discovery Captain See is said to have a correct method for calculating the bending of light by the sun’s gravitational attraction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 8
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