1986g

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 5, pp. 2475-2481 (1986).

THE MYSTERY OF MERCURY’S PERIHELION

Commentary: This was a general article discussing the background of debate concerning Einstein’s theory of planetary perihelion motion. It particular, it gives a fuller account of the
author’s interest in the earlier work of Paul Gerber, who derived the correct formula for the perihelion motion by a ‘space and time propagation’ theory 18 years before Einstein wrote on the subject.