CHAPTER SEVEN. Tackling the Solar Redshift Problem

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. TABLES xv
5. PREFACE xvii
6. INTRODUCTION xxi
7. NOTATION CONVENTION FOR ANGULAR MEASURE xxv
8. ABBREVIATIONS xxvii
9. PART ONE: 1905–1911 Early Encounters with Relativity
10. CHAPTER ONE. Einstein and the World Community of Physicists and Astronomers 3
11. CHAPTER TWO. Astronomers and Special Relativity: The First Publications 28
12. PART TWO: 1911–1919 Astronomers Encounter Einstein
13. CHAPTER THREE. The Early Involvement, 1911–1914 47
14. CHAPTER FOUR. The War Period, 1914–1918 85
15. CHAPTER FIVE. 1919: A Year of Dramatic Announcement 125
16. CHAPTER SIX. Men of Science Agog 146
17. PART THREE: 1920–1925 Astronomers Put Einstein to the Test
18. CHAPTER SEVEN. Tackling the Solar Redshift Problem 171
19. CHAPTER EIGHT. More Eclipse Testing 183
20. CHAPTER NINE. Emergence of the Critics 213
21. CHAPTER TEN. The Debate Intensifies 236
22. PART FOUR: 1925–1930 Final Acceptance
23. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Relativity Triumphs 265
24. CHAPTER TWELVE. Silencing the Critics 300
25. EPILOGUE. The Emergence of Relativistic Cosmology 315
26. FINAL REFLECTIONS 321
27. Notes 327
28. Bibliography 365
29. Index 385