The expanding universe / by Sir Arthur Eddington.

  • Arthur Eddington
Date:
1940
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Credit: The expanding universe / by Sir Arthur Eddington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Howard Coster Sir Arthur Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington is known to a large non-specialist public as a scientist who can explain difficult ideas clearly and wittily. He was born in 1882 and educated at Owens College, now Manchester University, and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he became a Senior Wrangler and Smith’s Prizeman. He was appointed Chief Ob¬ server at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1906, and in the following year he was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity. In 1913 he returned to Cambridge as Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and in 1914 he became Director of the Cambridge Obser¬ vatory; both these offices he still holds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, whose Royal Medal he received in 1928, President of the International Astronomical Union, and former President of the Physical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. His publications include the following books: Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe; The Relativity Theory of Gravity; Space, Time and Gravitation; The Mathematical Theory of Relativity; Stars and Atoms; New Pathways in Science; and The Philosophy of Physical Science Sir Arthur Reading-case label Eddington This book will keep better if it is Expanding Universe * The protected by the special Penguin reading-case (6d. from any bookseller). Cut out this label and paste it on to the back of the case.