of further verifications of empirical results, and adopted more and more the role of defenders of relativity''; ''In the empirically-oriented U. S. astronomical community'' relativity theory ''was accepted in large measure because it passed crucial teststhe 1920s, Lick and Mt. Wilson astronomers ''reaped the rewards

Reception Crelinsten. of further verifications of empirical results, and adopted more and more the role of defenders of relativity''; ''In the empirically-oriented U. S. astronomical community'' relativity theory ''was accepted in large measure because it passed crucial teststhe 1920s, Lick and Mt. Wilson astronomers ''reaped the rewards.