How ’spacetime’ curvature makes mercury’s orbit precess?

Head to to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FLOATHEADPHYSICS Why does mercury’s orbit precess? We thought it was due to gravitational effects of other planets. But, that accounts for about 92% of it. The remaining 8% comes from the spatial curvature of the sun as predicted by Einstein in his general theory of relativity. Einstein’s 1911 & 1915 papers below: é-géné The visuals are inspired from the book - ’Relativity Visualised by Lewis Caroll Epstein’. Check it out, the book is awesome. This video is sponsored by SquareSpace