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Einstein s Paper: Explanation of thePerihelion Motion of Mercury from GeneralRelativity Theory Anatoli Andrei VankovIPPE, Obninsk, Russia; Bethany College, KS, USA; s original paper Explanation of the Perihelion Motion ofMercury from General Relativity Theory , 1915, published in Germanand decades later translated into English, remains hardly accessible forreaders. We present the translation recently made by Professor RogerRydin from the University of Virginia who paid much attention to lin-guistic fidelity and scientific adequacy of the texts.

Erkl¨arung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Realtivit¨atstheorie Von A. Einstein According to “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein” (see our Notes), this is the lecture given to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 18