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DURING a total eclipse of the sun there will be, as I suppose, an increase of density of the air at the central portion of the shadow. If we imagine the normal atmosphere removed, we are left with a residual atmosphere the refraction effects of which will be changes in the normal refraction effects. The whole point is whether, on reasonable suppositions, this residual atmosphere can produce refraction effects of the order of the observed effects that have been attributed to the gravitational field of the sun.
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ANDERSON, A. Deflection of Light during a Solar Eclipse. Nature 104, 436 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104436b0
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