The 5,000-Year Eclipse Time Machine
Espenak & Meeus Five-Millennium Canon (-1999 BCE to +3000 CE) with Saros series genealogies.
Prominent Saros Dynasties
Historical Eclipses (-584 BCE to 2186 CE)
1919 CE · 1919-05-29Solar Total
Eddington's General Relativity Verification
Protagonists: Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Frank Dyson
Starlight deflection near the eclipsed solar limb confirmed Einstein's prediction of gravitational spacetime curvature over Newtonian mechanics, creating a global scientific revolution.
Visibility: Equatorial Atlantic, Príncipe Island, Sobral Brazil
Saros SeriesSaros 136
Eclipse Magnitude1.072
Totality Duration6m 51s
NASA Canon ID: ecl-1919-05-29Gamma: 0.198