«Before 1919, cosmology was as subjective as art history. A solar eclipse, and a patent clerk’s equations, changed everything.»
«He betrayed no jitters about the fact that, on that day in May, two scientific expeditions were finally putting his theory of general relativity to the test. In Sobral, Brazil, and on Príncipe Island, off the western coast of Africa, two teams were viewing a total solar eclipse; in measuring the deflection of starlight by the sun’s gravitational field, they proved Einstein right.»
1100-word article. More hype than physics, but still amusing.