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For Mandl’s life and role, Jüergen Renn and Tilman Sauer, “Eclipses of the Stars — Mandl, Einstein, and the Early History of Gravitational Lensing”, 2000, preprint 160 of the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (to appear in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel (Kluwer).
Einstein’s 1936 paper is “Lens-Like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field”, Science 84, 506
Freundlich’s expedition to the Crimea is discussed in Amir C. Aczel, God’s Equation (Delta Books, New York), 1999.
Zwicky’s note on lensing by galaxies is “Nebulae as Gravitational Lenses”, Physical Review 51, 290 (1937)
Dennis Walsh, “0957+561: The Unpublished Story”, in Gravitational Lenses, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics 330, 1989, p. 11.
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(2006). From shifting stars to multiple quasars. In: The Sky at Einstein’s Feet. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-37622-4_4
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