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THE effect of Einstein's law in changing the position of Mercury's perihelion is sometimes looked on as something mysterious and recondite; but in reality anything that disturbs the law of inverse squares in the smallest degree is bound to produce such a shift; and as in all the systems known to us such disturbing factors exist, the line of apses is invariably in motion.
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CROMMELIN, A. Relativity and the Motion of Mercury's Perihelion. Nature 106, 787–789 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106787a0
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