The Plates That Were Set Aside: sources and terms ================================================== This page ships five small JSON files of numbers transcribed by hand from printed tables, and short attributed quotations. It ships no scan, page image or plate image of any source. data/sobral-4inch.json sha256 4fdab471f0ed634ac0635613a8b71ecc69afe717ef954ebd0148323198015bc4 data/sobral-astrographic.json sha256 88d6d751150cac067318ae776b328c096b90f0c287c4df6d1015f8faa94ffe3c data/principe.json sha256 4a65cc1163cbd71b9413d964c2a033485cccc5f4bf7ca0aedd29e369c8ff2944 data/harvey1979.json sha256 30072e3d009c367e9dd307f75ec06260e1a8c91ec38693a72eb30f184759d27d data/published.json sha256 f01a5ce56be49120a6b1b5050bb215c0d56397b7c985aeef41a37328f74ba449 1. F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington and C. Davidson, "A determination of the deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field, from observations made at the total eclipse of May 29, 1919", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 220, 291 to 333 (published 27 April 1920). DOI 10.1098/rsta.1920.0009. Read from https://astronomyforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/DysonOriginalPaper_1919TSE_rsta.1920.0009.pdf (retrieved 2026-09-22, 8,198,432 bytes, sha256 f54474b217ab17a3d3bf4754cbe8bf0a1072c7a8f272696d1fb62d0ecc78350d). The scan carries a Royal Society download stamp and no licence statement. This page does not claim the paper is in the public domain. It uses the printed numbers (facts) with citation, and short quotations; the scan is not redistributed. Files: sobral-4inch.json, sobral-astrographic.json, principe.json. 2. G. M. Harvey, "Gravitational Deflection of Light: A re-examination of the observations of the solar eclipse of 1919", The Observatory 99, 195 to 198 (December 1979), ADS 1979Obs....99..195H. Read from https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1979Obs....99..195H (retrieved 2026-09-22, 105,220 bytes, sha256 53d1864cf880a81002aca26bc195d5faeedbdf12037edd4216248a8b72faf31f). Every page reads "(c) The Observatory, Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System". Only the fourteen printed lambda and standard-error pairs, Table III and short quotations are used, with citation; the scan is linked, not copied. File: harvey1979.json. 3. Gerard Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody, "The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told", Notes and Records 76, 155 to 180 (2022; published online 21 October 2020), DOI 10.1098/rsnr.2020.0040. "(c) 2020 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/". Numbers from Tables A2 and A4 and short quotations, attributed. Read from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/811bf8da-3210-48e0-b58f-12084f0fe798/download (sha256 e296aa887a7d4f7373be2f71550dc05c50f9634c5b9b2b85da4fa464d4ff56a1). File: published.json. 4. Clifford M. Will, "The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment", Living Reviews in Relativity 17, 4 (2014), DOI 10.12942/lrr-2014-4, CC BY 4.0 (Crossref licence field). One quoted VLBI value and short quotations, attributed, read in arXiv:1403.7377v1 and checked against the published text served by Europe PMC (PMC5255900). File: published.json. 5. T. Damour, "21. Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory" (revised August 2025), Review of Particle Physics, PDG 2026 web edition, https://pdg.lbl.gov/2026/reviews/rpp2026-rev-gravity-tests.pdf (sha256 3776bc9ca4887aeb1121137702a139b4630788163cca756c77fc0133c863c6af). One quoted sentence. 6. Daniel Kennefick, Physics Today 62(3), 37 to 42 (2009), DOI 10.1063/1.3099578. Short quotations. John Earman and Clark Glymour, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 11(1), 49 to 85 (1980), DOI 10.2307/27757471, quoted only as quoted by Gilmore and Tausch-Pebody. The charts, tables, text and code of this page are the Artificial Wasteland's own.