Abstract
Abstract This year sees the centenary of the birth of Arthur Stanley Eddington—a very great astronomer and a very great physicist. In the University of Cambridge he was for 30 years Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy—this latter being Newtonian for Physics. He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society 1921–23 and of the Physical Society 1930–32, so this year is also the jubilee of the completion of that Presidency. Thus it seems to be in keeping with his career for an astronomer to write about him an article addressed to physicists. Although I did not work closely with Eddington I had dealings with him of one sort or another over almost 20 years, including being examined by him in the Mathematical Tripos—which is why I venture to write of recollections.t
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