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:Information about Einstein's rise to fame is admittedly not appropriate for an actual science textbook.  A physics textbook would describe Galileo's accomplishments in mechanics (leading to what we now call "Galilean relativity") and astronomy (telescope, moons of Jupiter, etc.) but would probably not discuss in any detail his problems with the Catholic Church.

:Information about Einstein's rise to fame is admittedly not appropriate for an actual science textbook.  A physics textbook would describe Galileo's accomplishments in mechanics (leading to what we now call "Galilean relativity") and astronomy (telescope, moons of Jupiter, etc.) but would probably not discuss in any detail his problems with the Catholic Church.

:However, this an encyclopedia, not a physics textbook, and a certain amount of "fluff" or or societal material appears in many CP articles.  For example, the articles on Madonna Ciccone, Taylor Swift, Elvis Presley, Johannes Kepler, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, William Herschel, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, to name just a minuscule fraction of our articles, all have "soft" material on why they are famous.

:However, this an encyclopedia, not a physics textbook, and a certain amount of "fluff" or societal material appears in many CP articles.  For example, the articles on Madonna Ciccone, Taylor Swift, Elvis Presley, Johannes Kepler, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, William Herschel, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, to name just a minuscule fraction of our articles, all have "soft" material on why they are famous.

:Like it or not, Einstein is a household name.  If it weren't, would you be fighting so hard against him?  And he got that way in 1919 because of the eclipse.  I happen to disagree that that's his signature achievement.  But it's the achievement that, for better or worse, got the headlines and made him a superstar.

:Like it or not, Einstein is a household name.  If it weren't, would you be fighting so hard against him?  And he got that way in 1919 because of the eclipse.  I happen to disagree that that's his signature achievement.  But it's the achievement that, for better or worse, got the headlines and made him a superstar.