‎Einstein‎

‎Einstein Charles‎

‎Willie's Time: A Memoir of Another America‎

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‎Albert Einstein‎

‎Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays‎

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‎EINSTEIN A. L. INFELD & B. HOFFMANN. EINSTEIN'S LAST CONTRIBUTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY THE ROUND OFF OF GENERAL RELATIVIT‎

‎The gravitational Equations and the problem of Motion. I- II. Part II only with Infeld.‎

‎Baltimore Princeton University Press 1938 a.1940. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 full cloth gilt lettering to spines. In: Annals of Mathematics" Series 2 Vol. 39 and vol. 40. Entire volumes offered. The papers: pp. 65-100 a. pp. 455-464. Clean and fine.<br><br>ogs� on a generalization. pais p. 496 � First appearance of these two importent papers on the General theory of Relativity in which is shown that the equation of motion follows directly from the field equation that defined the geometry.<br><br>"Einstein's last importent contribution to general relativity deals again with the problem of motion. It is the work done with Leopold Indfeld and Banesh Hoffmann on the N-body problem of motion. In these papers the gravitational field is no longer treated as external. Instead it and the motion of its singular sources are treated simultaneously. A new approximation scheme is introduced in which the fields are no longer necessarily weak but in which the source velocities are small compared with the light velocity. These equations are widely used in analyses of planetary orbits in the solar system."Pais "Subtle is the Lord" pp. 290-91.<br><br>Weil: 202 a. 205 both with an asterix denoting a major paper. - Boni: 236 a. 236.1. hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Zur allgemeinen Relativit�tstheorie.‎

‎Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1923. 4to. Orig. orange printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 32-38. Fine fresh copy. � First edition in the rare Offprint stilled called "Abdruck". Weil No. 131.<br>The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Zum hundertj�hrigen Gedenktag von Lord Kelvins Geburt.‎

‎Berlin Julius Springer 1924. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Die Naturwissenschaften" 12. Jahrg 1924. The whole year offered. "12" written in hand to spine otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp. 601-602. Entire volume: XXV 1 1412 60 pp. � First printing of Einstein's paper on Lord Kelvin and his scientific work. <br>The occasion was the Centenary Year of Thomson's birth and Einstein wrote 'Zum hundertj�hrigen Gedenktag von Lord Kelvins Geburt 26. Juni 1824'. In the mid-nineteenth century Thomson's ideas on thermodynamics established the base line for future generations of scientists. Likewise in 1905 <br>Einstein changed the world of physics forever with the publication of his radical new ideas on special relativity.<br><br>"We may learn from Einstein the philosopher of his interest in the founding scientists of the nineteenth century such as Kelvin and Maxwell of science being not only about instrumentation mathematics and formulae but also about sharing in the aspirations and achievements of other scientists past or present." Trainer Einstein's Centenary Tribute <br><br>The volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary phycisians. <br><br>Weil 140. hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechtehaltung des Begreiffes des Fernparallelismus.‎

‎Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1928. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabruck aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-7. Fine fresh copy. � Firsrt edition of the rare Offprint still called "Abdruck" but now having separate pagination and separate printed title see Weil No. 161 where this is not mentioned.<br>The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT. THE NOBEL LECTURE.‎

‎Grundgedanken und Probleme der Relativit�tstheorie. Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity. Vortrag gehalten an der Nordischen Naturforscherversammlung in Gotenburg den 11 Juli 1923. Basic ideas and problems of the theory of relativity.‎

‎Stockholm Nordstedt & Fils 1923. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Les Prix Nobel en 1921-1922". Pp. 1-10. Fine and clean. � First edition in the scarce offprint version of Einsteins Nobel lecture. The paper presents the Nobel lecture delivered in G�teborg on July 11 1923. Because Einstein did not deliver the lecture at the same time as he received the award it did not concern the prize topic which was "for his attainments in mathematical physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectrical effect."<br><br>In relation to his Nobel Prize Einstein would have preferred to speak on unified field theory but he followed Arrhenius proposal "but it is certain that one would be most grateful for a lecture about your relativity theory." On a very hot day in July Einstein dressed in a black redingote addressed an audience of about two thousand in the Jubilee Hall in G�teborg on "basic ideas and problems of the theory of relativity." King Gustav V who was present had a pleasant chat with Einstein afterwards. Einstein later gave a second more technical lecture at Chalmers Technical Institute for about fifty members of the Science Society."Pais pp. 504-5.<br><br>Weil: 135. - Boni: 136. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN A. & J. GROMMER.‎

‎Allgemeine Relativit�tstheorie und Bewegungsgesetz.‎

‎Berlin 1927. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus "Sitzungsberichte". pp. 2-13. � First edition. Weil No. 155. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN A.‎

‎Address at the University of Nottingham.‎

‎New York The Science Press 1930. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Science" Vol. 71 1930. Small stamp to lower part of front free end-paper. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp.608-10. Entire volume: VIII 670 pp advertisements. � First printing. <br>Einstein was invited to give a lecture at the University of Nottingham by a lecturer there Henry Brose who also acted as interpreter. Einstein came with his wife Elsa on 6th June 1930. He was due to start the lecture at 3.45pm but did not arrive until 6.30 as he took a detour to visit the birth place of Isaac Newton. The blackboard on which he wrote was quickly varnished over when the lecture was over and is still preserved in the university. While in Nottingham Einstein commented on George Green's contribution to mathematics saying that he had been 20 years ahead of his time.<br><br>Weil no 174a. hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN A.‎

‎�ber eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verh�ltnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons.‎

‎Leipzig Ambrosius Barth 1906. 8vo. In contemporary halv calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge Band 21. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 583-86. Entire volume: 1055 VIII pp. � First printing of Einstein's paper on a method for the determination of the transversal and longitudinal mass of the electron. This eventually caused a major breakthrough in <br><br>Weil no. 14 hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT. EINSTEINS FOURTH PAPER.‎

‎Eine Theorie der Grundlagen der Thermodynamik;‎

‎Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1903. Contemp. hcloth. Some small nicks to spine. = "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 11. Herausgegeben von Paul Drude.". VIII1144pp. and 6 plates. The Einstein paper: pp. 170-187. Internally fine and clean. � First edition of Einsteins fourth paper. In his paper from 1902 Einstein "says in his introduction that nobody has yet succeeded in deriving the conditions of thermal equilibrium and of the second law of thermodynamics from probability considerations although Maxwell and Boltzmann came near to it. Willard Gibbs is not mentioned. In fact Einstein's paper was written in ignorance of Gibbs paper published 1901. In the present paper Einstein builds the theory on another basis not used by Gibbs namely on the consideration of a single system in course of time later called "Zeit-Gesamtheit" time assembly and proves that this is equivalent to a certain virtual assembly of many systems Gibb's micro-canonical assembly.Einstein at once proceeded to apply his theorems to a case of utmost importance namely to systems of a size suited for demonstrating the reality of molecules and the correctness of the kinetic theory of matter."Walter Alicke. - Weil No. 4. hardcover‎

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‎PAULI jun. W. THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION OF THE MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL IDEAS OF EINSTEIN‎

‎Relativit�tstheorie. Sonderabdruck aus der Encyclop�die der Mathematischen Wissenschaften. Mit einem Vorwort von A. Somerfeld.‎

‎Leipzig u. Berlin Teubner 1921. Lex 8vo. Orig. hcloth w. gilt lettering to spine. Papercovered boards w. black lettering to front. Minor wear to extremities and inner front hinge a bit weak otherwise very nice clean and well-preserved. Internally near mint. IV pp i.e. the Preface of Somerfeld pp. 539 - 775. � First edition off-print of Pauli's excellent monograph which was published as the article on relativity theory in the highly estimated "Encyclop�die der Mathematischen Wissenschaften".<br><br>Wolfgang Pauli jr. 1900-1958 already in high school acquainted himself with Einstein's theory of relativity when this was entirely new and after having finished high school he decided to study theoretical physics under Arnold Somerfeld one of the leading scholars in the field at the time in Munich. During this period Felix Klein was publishing the "Encyclop�die der Mathematischen Wissenschaften" and he asked Somerfeld to write the article on relativity theory for this highly esteemed publication. However being very impressed by the abilities of his barely 20 year old student Pauli jr. he asked him to carry out the task and so he did. "Pauli soon completed a monograph of about 250 pages which critically presented the mathematical foundations of the theory as well as its physical significance. He took thorough account of the already very considerable literature on the subject but at the same time clearly put forth his own interpretation. Despite the necessary brevity of discussion he monograph is a superior introduction to the special and general theories of relativity; it is in addition a first-rate historical document of science since together with H. Weyl's "Raum Zeit Materie" it is the first comprehensive presentation of the mathematical and physical ideas of Einstein who himself never wrote a large work about his theory.<br>Somerfeld was elated by his performance and wrote to Einstein that Pauli's article was "simply masterful" - and so it has remained to the present day. Pauli showed here for the first time his art of presenting science which marks everything he wrote." D.S.B. X:422 hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎�ber einen Satz der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung in der Strahlentheorie Together with L. Hopf; Withbound: Statistische Untersuchungen der Bewegung eines Resnators in einem Strahlungsfeld; Withbound: Theorie der Opaleszenz von hogenen Fl�ssigkeitsgemischen in der N�he des kritischen Zustandes;‎

‎Leipzig J.A. Barth 1910. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt a fs scratches to spine. VIII1584 pp. and 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 1096: pp. 1105-1115; pp. 1275-1298. Fine and clean. The whole volume offered. � All three papers first edition. The purpose of "A theorem in probability and its application in the Theory of radiation" is to demonstrate that the failure of statistical mechanics with respect to the radiation law Rayleigh - Jeans law contradicted by experience cannot be removed by the conjecture that perhaps the individual statistical events should not follow the usual law of independence product of probabilities instead of assuming a certain interdependence between them. Lanczos. The second paper "Statistical investigation on of the motion of an oscillator in a radiation field" makes use of the results of the previous investigation. Einstein's aim is to demonstrate that the Rayleigh-jeans law of radiation contracdicted by the physical facts is an unavoidable consequence of statistics even if we avoid any kind of assumption which may be suspected of needing correction. Lanczos. The third paper "Theory of the opalescence of homogenous fluids and fluid mixtures near the critical state" is an importent investigation and one of the most difficult of all his papers to understand. The aim of the paper is to complement the work of Smoluchovski Ann. d. Physik25 1908 who gave a general explanation of the strong density fluctuations - and the opalescence thus generated - of two fluids near the critical state of mixture or a single fluid near the critical state of condensation on the basis of the kinetic theory of heat. he did notgive howeverthe quantitative details concerning the scattered light associated with this phenomenon. Lanczos. - Weil Nos 34 35 and 36 with an asterix denoting major work. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Zum Kosmologischen problem der allgemeinen Relativit�tstheorie.‎

‎Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1931. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten.pp.1-5. Fine fresh copy. � First edition in the rare Offprint with the separate printed title and separate pagination. See Weil No. 179 where this is not mentioned.<br>The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎�ber die M�glichkeit einer neuen Pr�fung des Relativit�tsprinzips.‎

‎Leipzig Barth 1907. 8vo. Extract from "Annalen der Physik IV23" pp.197-198. � First edition in the periodical form. - Weil No. 17. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Thermodynamische Begr�ndung des photochemischen �quivalentgesetzes; Withbound: Nachtrag zu meiner Arbeit:"Thermodynamische Begr�ndung des photochemischen Aquivalentgesetzes; Withbound: Zur Theorie des statischen Gravitationsfeldes; Withbound: Antwort auf eine Bemerkung von J. Stark: "�ber eine Anwendung des Planckschen Elementargesetzes."; Withbound: Relativit�t und Gravitation. Erwiderung auf eine Bemerkung von M. Abraham;‎

‎Leipzig J.A. Barth 1912. Bound in two contemp. hcalf richly gilt spine and one later full cloth. A library stamp on the first volume. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 37 und 38. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck." VIII1048;VIII1064 pp. 58 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 832-38 vol.37 pp. 881-84 Nachtrag vol. 38; pp. 443-458 vol. 38; p. 888 vol. 38; pp. 1059-1064 vol. 38; Planck: pp. 642-656. Internally fine and clean. Both volumes offered. � All papers first edition. In the first paper "Thermodynamical derivation of the photochemical equivalence" Einstein calls "the law of photochemical equivalence" the statement that the decomposition of one gram equivalent of any substance by a photochemical proces demands the radiation energy of 'Nhv' where N=the Avogadro number. In this paper he demonstrates how this law is deducible by purely thermodynamical arguments if certain olausible assumotions are made. Lanzos. - The second paper "Concerning the theory of a static gravitational field" states that the 'equivalence hypothesis' permits us to come to very definite conclusions about the behaviour of a static gravitational field. - The next Einstein paper gives an answer to J. Stark as Stark claimed priority to the photochemical equivalence law. - In the last paper "Relativity and Gravitation. Reply to a remark of M. Abraham" Einstein elaborates his answer to the critique of M. Abraham. - Weil Nos 46 1-2 a. 48. - Planck Akademie No 95. hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN A. + E. RUPP. THE GREATEST SCANDAL IN PHYSICS AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE‎

‎�ber die Interferenzeigenschaften des durch Kanalstrahlen emittierten Lichtes Einstein �ber die Interferenzeigenschaften des Kanalstrahllichtes Rupp. Offprint from "Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften" XXV 1926.‎

‎1926. Royal8vo. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "�berreicht von den Verfassern" i.e. "Given by the authors". Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper loose but fully intact. "Chilpp 202" and "Recdese 160" written in hand to top of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 334-351. � First edition in the scarce author's presentation offprint issue of this important paper which contains Einstein's theories on wave-particle duality and German physicist Rupp's work on the same subject seemingly to corroborating Einstein's theories. Rupp's experimental results later turned out to have been falsifications and today he is mainly known as the protagonist in one of the biggest scandals in physics in the 20th century.<br><br>Rupp published a number of papers on the interference properties of light emitted by canal ray sources. These articles particularly the present that came into being in close collaboration with Albert Einstein attracted quite a lot of attention as they probed the wave versus particle nature of light. They also significantly propelled Rupp's career even though they were considered highly controversial to begin with.<br><br>In April 1926 Albert Einstein proposed to Emil Rupp to carry out two experiments that were to prove the wave nature of light versus the particle nature of light: the so-called 'Wire Grid Experiment' and the 'Rotated Mirror Experiment' experiments that Einstein had worked on theoretically and now would like to gain confirmation of through experiments. <br>Rupp at the time regarded as one of the most important and most competent experimental physicists gladly took up the challenge. Rupp's observations - though highly controversial - confirmed Einstein's theory. Due to the surprising outcome of the experiments Einstein was interested in exactly how it they were conducted as Rupp's initial descriptions did not convince him that the results were feasible.<br><br>"Rupp stood by his observations and suggested yet other circumstances that might explain them. Did Einstein now realize that there was something rather dubious about Rupp's work He had seen him change his data repeatedly-and each time in better accordance with his own criticism and on one occasion in no less than two days. He had had to accept that Rupp claimed to earlier have "unknowingly" or "unconsciously" rotated a mirror and he will likely have seen that Rupp's work was highly controversial amongst experimentalists leading to very public criticism in Die Naturwissenschaften. He himself was now also convinced that in fact Rupp's results were incomprehensible. So did Einstein choose to suspend the publication of Rupp's piece so that an additional round of checks and balances could take place <br>The answer is no: Rupp's paper was presented by Einstein to the Prussian Academy in a session on 21 October 1926 and it appeared in print in the Academy's proceedings in November of 1926-the articles by Einstein and Rupp came out back to back and reprints circulated with both papers bound together with a joint cover page that displayed both titles. Einstein referred in his article to Rupp's claims and he had even written the abstract of Rupp's paper" Dongen: "Emil Rupp Albert Einstein and the Canal Ray Experiments on Wave-Particle".<br><br>The first clear indication that Rupp's work was impossible to recreate came in 1930 in a paper published by Staub - nothing was wrong with Einstein's theory but Rupp's work was simply impossible: "Rupp immediately set out to respond to Straub's publication. On 12 July 1930 he sent a first draft to Einstein to whom he also announced his intention of redoing his canal ray experiments-Straub was dismissed as a clumsy graduate student with a lousy apparatus. Einstein suggested inviting Straub once Rupp had his experiment up and running again but cautioned him not to engage the polemic in too sharp a tone". Rupp managed to convince the physics society and continued to publish the new few years. In 1934 various different physicians pointed out that Rupp's work was impossible to recreate and in 1935 the final blow to Rupp's career came about when the German Physical Society's decided not to allow any citations of Rupp's work. This seems to have had very severe consequences as today it is almost impossible to find any quotations - or even mentioning of Rupp in general let alone his fraud - in any historical studies of either quantum theory or of Einstein.<br><br>Despite the unquestionable fraud by Rupp his experiments and collaboration with Einstein might have had a positive influence on the further progression to quantum mechanics. The two present papers became of seminal importance in the discussions between Bohr and Heisenberg which eventually in 1927 resulted in Heisenberg publishing his landmark thesis on the uncertainty principle. When Max Born received the Nobel Prize in physics he stated that: "An idea of Einstein gave me the lead From the present paper. He had tried to make the duality of particles-light quanta or photons-and waves comprehensible by interpreting the square of the optical wave amplitudes as probability density for the occurrence of photons."<br><br>Boni 160; Weil 153. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN A. + S. N. BOSE.‎

‎Zur Theorie der Radiometerkr�fte Addendum to Bose's paper: Einstein �ber die Entwicklung des Drehkristallverfahrens. Bemerkung zu der Arbeit von Polanyi Schiebold und Wissenberg.‎

‎Berlin Springer 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. In "Zeitschrift f�r Physik" Bd. 27. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end paper. Fine and clean. Einstein: Pp. 1-6; P. 392. Bose: P. 392. Entire volume: IV 395 1 pp. � First appearance of Einstein's paper on statistical mechanics and the physics of radiometers. <br><br>Weil 139 143a hardcover‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Zum hundertj�hrigen Gedenktag von Lord Kelvins Geburt.‎

‎Berlin Julius Springer 1924. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. In "Die Naturwissenschaften" 12. Jahrg. Heft 30 pp. 601-602. The whole of Heft 30 present. � First edition. - Weil 140. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎H. A. Lorentz als Sch�pfer und als Pers�nlichkeit.‎

‎Leiden 1953. 8vo. In the original green printed wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 8 pp. frontispiece-portrait of Lorentz. � First printing of Einstein's essay on Hendrik Lorentz a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Einstein was particulaly interested and indebted to Lorenz; Lorenz derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Albert Einstein to describe space and time. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT. TRANSFORMING THE SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY‎

‎Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativit�tstheorie. The foundation of the General Theory of Relativity.‎

‎Leipzig Ambrosius Barth 1916. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Top part of spine loosening but fully intact and completely unrestored. A bit of dusting to wrappers. Front wrapper with some mild brownspotting to upper part and left margin. Lower right corner has been bent leaving a crease. A few nicks to extremities. Title-page with light brownspotting to upper margin and an old owner's name across the middle "Ernst Helmut Klein". 64 pp. � First issue of the first edition in book form being not an offprint of the"Annalen der Physik" journal issue as often stated but a separate edition of the paper completely re-set and with significant changes and additions including for the first time in print the "Einleitung" and the "Inhalt".<br><br>The first issue is distinguished from the later reprints by the printing of "Sonderdruck aus dem "Annalen der Physik" Band 49 1916" and "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig. 314" to the verso of the title-page and "Metzger & Wittig Leipzig" to the foot of the back wrapper. Furthermore "This separate edition is printed on good strong paper the wrappers are of strong material too and it is described now as 'the original edition' of this classic paper" Weil. <br><br>Einstein's seminal "General Theory of Relativity" has had an immense impact on all science philosophy and man's view of the world in general. Few other books of the 20th century can be said to have so basically altered the way that we view the world and our place in it. <br>Determining space and time as being interwoven into a single continuum known as "space-time" and determining that there is no absolute space-time coordinate system - i.e. that there are no absolute positions in time and pace - established the fact that events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another i.e. all positions in space and time are relative. <br>This general theory of relativity here presented in its full exposition for the first time in book form is now a basic foundation for scientific thought.<br><br>"The theory of relativity has transformed astrophysics and indeed the whole scientific outlook." PMM.<br><br>"Whereas Special Relativity had brought under one set of laws the electromagnetic world of Maxwell and Newtonian mechanics as far as they applied to bodies in uniform relative motion The General Theory did the same thing for bodies with the accelerated relative motion epitomized in the acceleration of gravity. But first it had been necessary for Einstein to develop the true nature of gravity from his principle of equivalence.Basically he proposed that gravity was a function of matter itself and that its effects were transmitted between contiguous portions of space-time. Where matter exists so does energy; the greater the mass of matter involved the greater the effect of the energy which can be transmitted. In addition gravity affected light. exactly as it affected material particles. Thus the universe which Newton had seen and for which he had constructed his apparently impeccable mechanical laws was not the real universe. Einstein's paper gave not only a correct picture of the universe but also a fresh set of mechanical laws by which its details could be described" R.W. Clark. <br><br>"This paper was the first comprehensive overview of the final version of Einstein's general theory of relativity after several expositions of preliminary versions and latest revisions of the theory in November 1915. It includes a self-contained exposition of the elements of the tensor calculus that are needed for the theory. T. Sauer in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics.<br><br> PMM: 408. - Horblit 26 c. - Weil 80. - Boni: 781 - Schilpp-Schields: 86. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN A. THE SINGULARITY PROBLEM ASSOCIATION COPY.‎

‎Demonstration of the Non-Existence of Gravitational Fields with a non-vanishing total Mass free of Singularities.‎

‎Tucuman Argentina 1941. Royal8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Offprint from "Revista. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman" Series A Matematicas y Fisica Teorica Vol. 2 Diciembre de 1941 Nos 1 y 2. Pp. 11-15. Fine and clean. This copy has belonged to Abraham Pais 1918-2000 - the famous Einstein scholar theoretical physicist and Einsteins collegue at Princeton - and having his name on top of the frontwrapper "A Pais" � First edition of a scarce paper in the offprint version. The paper "represents the basis of the one written by the same author in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli in 1943 in which by following analogous lines the proof of the non-existence of regular particle-type solutions was generalized to the case of cilyndrical geometries in Kaluza-Klein theory Einstein & Pauli 1943. Besides other generalizations were subsequently presented. The non-existence of such solutions in classical unified field theory was undoubtedly an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations."Galvagno and Giribet.<br><br>"In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics Einstein considered five-dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a non-singular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated and in the x5-independent theory Einstein together with Pauli argued it would be impossible to find these structures." Jeroen van Dongen.<br><br>Weil: 208. - Boni: 243. unknown‎

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‎PLANCK MAX ALBERT EINSTEIN. THE QUANTUM THEORY PMM 391b‎

‎Ueber das Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum; Ueber die Elementarquanta der Materie und der Elektricit�t. Withbound: Albert Einstein: Folgerungen aus den Capillarit�tserscheinungen.‎

‎Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1901. 8vo. Bound in a fine recent green hcalf with gilt spine. In: "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von Paul Drude." Vierte Folge. Band 4. VIII1856 pp. and 9 plates. Entire volume offered. Planck's papers: pp.553-568 and pp. 564-566. - Einstein's paper: pp.513-523. An embossed stamp to title-page. Internally fine and clean. � First edition of all three papers. "The Law of distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum" explained that his resonators began to react when a definite unit of energy was available and that acceleration occurred in exact multiples of that unit: not continously but in a series of discrete gushes. This unit he called 'a quantum' of energy. Here was a revolutionary theory. It contradicted the mechanics of Newton.and the electromagnetics of Faraday.and Maxwell. Moreover it challenged the notion of the continuity of nature.The Quantum Theory has affected virtually every branch of physics."PMM:391.<br><br>The essence of Quantum Physics.consists in the fact that it introduces a new and universal constant namely the elementary Quantum of Action. "Planck's constant sets the scale for the quantum. Later scientists such as Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg showed that Planck's quantum constant determines all sizes of the atomic and subatomic domain down to the smallest structures of time and space. The diameter of the atom depends on 'h'. Heisenberg's Uncertaimty Principle depends on 'h'. The tiniest possible size of transistors and computers dependt on 'h'. The smallest increment of time in which time has a meaning depends on 'h'. The theoreticl density of matter at the birth of the universe depends on 'h'. Einstein said in his eulogy for Planck in 1948 "he showed convincily that in addition to the atomistic structure of matter there is a kind of atomistic structure of energy.This discovery became the basis of all twentieth century researches in physics." Planck could not have foreseen that his quantum of energy would lead to a wholesale reshaping of physics called quantum mechanics along with a radically new conception of reality. For example one of the findings of quantum mechanics is that all material objects behave as if they exists at many places at once. A closely related result is that the physical world does not obey fully predictive laws but rather evolves within bounds of uncertainty." Alan Lightman in The Discoverers. <br><br>PMM Printing and the Mind of Man: 391 b. - Akademie No. 48 a. 49.<br><br>The Einstein paper here is Einstein's first published paper Conclusions drawn from the Phenomena of Capillarity. His earliest papers - "my two worthless beginner's works" as he referred them a few years later were an attempt to learn something from experimental materials about intermolecular forces with a view toward their possible relationship with longrange gravitational force a problem going back to Newton's time." <br>Weil No. 1. unknown‎

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‎EINSTEIN ALBERT.‎

‎Einheitliche Feldtheorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip.‎

‎Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1929. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-6. Fine fresh copy. � First edition in the rare Offprint now called "Sonderausgabe" instead of "Sonderabdruck" having separate printed title and separate pagination. See Weil: 166 where this is not mentioned.<br>The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies.<br>Weil No. 166. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 28364

‎EINSTEIN A.‎

‎Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizit�t. Erste und zweite Mitteilung.‎

‎Berlin 1927. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus "Sitzungsberichte". pp. 23-30. � First edition. Weil No. 156. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 22776