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Fig. 7.5 Donkey team hauling equipment from a schooner during the 1922 Solar
Eclipse Expedition at Wallal. Image: courtesy of State Library of Western Australia
(Image: Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and
reproduced with the permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. https://
purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4792891_1 (accessed 2020/05/26))
Figure 7.5 shows equipment being manhandled from a grounded schooner
onto a cart drawn by a donkey team at Wallal during the 1922 solar eclipse
expedition. Nine metre tides are the norm in this region of Australia. A
rude twig shelter provides a modicum of shade from the tropical sun for a
hanging canvas water bottle. Figure 7.6 shows Dr Robert Trumper, expedition
member, observing the sun’s image.
Eddington was a strong supporter of General Relativity. Shortly after the
publication of Einstein’s paper, he delivered a lecture presenting the new
theory. At that time it was said that only three people in the world understood Einstein’s work. 3 One of the audience asked him if he was one of these
three. 4 Eddington stopped and seemed to puzzle a while, until urged by the
questioner not to be modest. “On the contrary,” he quipped. “I’m trying to
think who the third person might be.”
3 This number is even smaller than the 12 wise men in the NY Times headline in Fig. 7.4.
4 Allegedly related by Ludwik Silberstein, a Polish-American Physicist, 1872–1948.
R. Barrett and P. P. Delsanto
Fig. 7.5 Donkey team hauling equipment from a schooner during the 1922 Solar
Eclipse Expedition at Wallal. Image: courtesy of State Library of Western Australia
(Image: Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and
reproduced with the permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. https://
purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4792891_1 (accessed 2020/05/26))
Figure 7.5 shows equipment being manhandled from a grounded schooner
onto a cart drawn by a donkey team at Wallal during the 1922 solar eclipse
expedition. Nine metre tides are the norm in this region of Australia. A
rude twig shelter provides a modicum of shade from the tropical sun for a
hanging canvas water bottle. Figure 7.6 shows Dr Robert Trumper, expedition
member, observing the sun’s image.
Eddington was a strong supporter of General Relativity. Shortly after the
publication of Einstein’s paper, he delivered a lecture presenting the new
theory. At that time it was said that only three people in the world understood Einstein’s work. 3 One of the audience asked him if he was one of these
three. 4 Eddington stopped and seemed to puzzle a while, until urged by the
questioner not to be modest. “On the contrary,” he quipped. “I’m trying to
think who the third person might be.”
3 This number is even smaller than the 12 wise men in the NY Times headline in Fig. 7.4.
4 Allegedly related by Ludwik Silberstein, a Polish-American Physicist, 1872–1948.