Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-gtxcr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T20:46:08.990Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

105.15 Could Newton have calculated the deflection angle of starlight?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2021

Robert L. Lamphere*
Affiliation:
Elizabethtown and Technical College, Elizabethtown, KY 42701, USA e-mail: robert.lamphere@kctcs.edu

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes
Copyright
© The Mathematical Association 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Newton, Isaac, Opticks or A treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflictions and Colours of Light. Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730, Dover Publications Inc., New York, NY (1979).Google Scholar
Newton, Isaac, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Translated by Andrew Motte. Edited and revised by Florian Cajori, Berkley: University of California Press (1966).Google Scholar
Jaki, S. L., Johann Georg Soldner and the Gravitational Bending of Light, with an English Translation of His Essay on It Published in 1801, Foundations of Physics, 8 (1978) pp. 927950.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pais, Abraham, ‘Subtle is the Lord…’: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Clarendon Press and Oxford University, Oxford and New York (1982).Google Scholar