The King and the Day of the Eclipse
On May 29, 1919, a solar eclipse provided proof for Einstein’s theory of relativity – light bent as he had predicted. However, on the same date, 400 years earlier, Charles V was born, who claimed to be “ruler under the sun and moon.”
The coincidence of this date – an emperor who saw himself as cosmic and a theory that changed the universe – continues to spark debate. Historians see it as a poetic overlay of science and symbolism.
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