Claim that he preceded Einstein by about seven years in connecting gravitation and magnetism is made by Capt. Thomas J. See of the United States Naval Observatory, Mare Island, Cal, states an Associate Press despatch from San Francisco.
“In January, 1929,” says Capt. See, “Einstein announced the connection of gravitation with electro-dynamics, etc., through a new field theory. It is not new, however, for my published work on the connection between magnetism and electrodynamics dates from 1917, and my mathematical formulae connecting magnetism with universal gravitation is not only given, but tested and numerically verified by application to the fields of the earth and sun in the Astronomische Nachrichten Sondernummer, November, 1922.
“I therefore anticipated Einstein by about seven years in the field theory of the earth and sun, which is tested and verified in a way that no truthful man can deny.”
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