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1924rif. 78904London: Methuen & Company 1924. First edition of this classic account of Born's analysis and interpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity. Octavo original cloth frontispiece of Einstein. Signed by Max Born on the verso of the frontispiece. Translated by Henry L. Brose. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are uncommon signed examples rare. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is a book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954 and was one of the world's great physicists: in this work he analyzes and interprets the theory of Einsteinian relativity. The result is undoubtedly the most lucid and insightful of all the books that have been written to explain the revolutionary theory that marked the end of the classical and the beginning of the modern era of physics. Born follows a quasi-historical method of presentation. The book begins with a review of the classical physics covering such topics as origins of space and time measurements geometric axioms Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy concepts of equilibrium and force laws of motion inertia mass momentum and energy Newtonian world system absolute space and absolute time gravitation celestial mechanics centrifugal forces and absolute space laws of optics the corpuscular and undulatory theories speed of light wave theory Doppler effect convection of light by matter electrodynamics including magnetic induction electromagnetic theory of light electromagnetic ether electromagnetic laws of moving bodies electromagnetic mass and the contraction hypothesis. Born then takes up his exposition of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity discussing the concept of simultaneity kinematics Einstein's mechanics and dynamics relativity of arbitrary motions the principle of equivalence the geometry of curved surfaces and the space-time continuum among other topics. Born then points out some predictions of the theory of relativity and its implications for cosmology and indicates what is being sought in the unified field theory. This work steers a middle course between vague popularizations and complex scientific presentations. This is a careful discussion of principles stated in thoroughly acceptable scientific form yet in a manner that makes it possible for the reader who has no scientific training to understand it. Only high school algebra has been used in explaining the nature of classical physics and relativity and simple experiments and diagrams are used to illustrate each step. The layman and the beginning student in physics will find this an immensely valuable and usable introduction to relativity. Methuen & Company hardcover
1987rif. 50442Princeton University Press 1987. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Very Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Edited by John Stachal. Very large very heavy sturdy book quality blue cloth very bright gilt lettering on spine 433 pages illustrations throughout including drawings and formulas. DJ glossy beneath mylar black background photo of young Einstein in white frame at center front. DJ has light crease along bottom back. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Princeton University Press hardcover
rif. 0336-02Lpz. Wolff 1918. 177 2 S. OHLdr. mit Kopfgoldschnitt u. Rückengoldpräg. EA. W.- G.² 6; Raabe/Hannich-B. 65.4 - In nur 850 Expl. gedruckt. - Enthält die drei Erzählungen: Der unentwegte Platoniker; G.F.R.G. Gesellschaft für religiöse Gründungen; Die Mädchen auf dem Dorfe. Lpz., Wolff [1918]. unknown
1970rif. P-24781New York: Horizon Press 1970. Hardcover. Fine/First Edition. Octavo. The first book publication of these conversations and interviews with the legendary physicist as translated by Henry L. Brose. Single 1970 date on copyright page and $8.50 flap price bound in the original grey cloth with Einstein's name debossed on the front cover. A clean unmarked copy quite fine and uncommon thus. Archival Mylar jacket cover included. Horizon Press hardcover
1950rif. P-27103Princeton: Princeon University Press 1950. Hardcover. Fine/3rd Edition. Duodecimo. The revised third edition including The Generalized Theory Of Gravitation.' 12mo 165 pp 2 leaves index. Original cloth. Book is fine in very good unclipped dust jacket with light spine tanning and a small 1/$" V chip to the lower spine. Attractive and solid in the archival Mylar jacket cover. Princeon University Press hardcover
1979rif. P-18052Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1979. Hardcover. As New/First Edition. Octavo. With the reeata slip laid in. First publication of these letters by Einstein. A clean unmarked and unclipped copy. Princeton University Press hardcover
rif. 242042981Leipzig/Berlin B.G. Teubner. 1913 cloth 6 89 pp. spine and part of front slightly discoloured else in fine condition Fortschritte der mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien herausgegeben von Otto Blumenthal Heft 2. Mit Anmerkungen von A. Sommerfeld und Vorwort von O. Blumenthal. Leipzig/Berlin, B.G. Teubner hardcover
rif. 242042962Braunschweig Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn. 1923 2. Aufl. rebound in halfleather 4 70 2 pp. in fine condition Braunschweig, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn hardcover
rif. 242042938Berlin Julius Springer. 1921 paper wrappers 20 pp. remarks and underlinings with pen also on frontwrapper else good Erweiterte Fassung des festvortrages Gehalten an der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin am 27. Januar 1921. Berlin, Julius Springer unknown
rif. 600810New York: Oxford University Press 1962. First Paperback Edition; Fifteenth Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. Rubbing on panel edges. Toning on text block edges.; 492 pages. Oxford University Press unknown
2010rif. ANAIS-0786447737McFarland 2010-09-24. hardcover. Good. 25.7x17.8x2. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. McFarland hardcover
1950rif. 059077New York: Philosophical Library 1950. 1st Edition Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. 282 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth Lettered In Gilt. First Edition But A Later Printing Lacking The Frontispiece Portrait Of Einstein By Lotte Jacobi. Book Is Near Fine Light Rubbing At Corners Lettering Strong No Marks. Philosophical Library hardcover
1998rif. 1-0691059381Princeton Univ Dept of Art & 1998. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 198 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. Princeton Univ Dept of Art & hardcover
rif. 31310Couverture rigide. Bon/1956. in-8. Paris Gauthier-Villars 1956 in-8 179pp broché Superbe exemplaire! unknown
rif. 31311Couverture rigide. Bon/1925. in-12. Paris Gauthier-Villars 1925 in-12 56pppp broché Superbe exemplaire! unknown
1950rif. 046941New York: Philosophical Library 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Frontispiece. 282 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered In Gilt On Front CoverAlso Lettered In Gilt In Spine Stamped On Two Blocks Of Dark Blue Background. Dust Jacket Priced $4.75 With Only 15 Titles On Rear Panel Two First Published In 1950 The Others First Published By Philosophical Library 1942 To 1949. Frontispiece Portrait Of Einstein By Lotte Jacobi. There Are Many Issues With Identical Pagination In Cloth Or Boards Of Various Colors All With Later Post-1950 Publications Indicated On The Rear Panel In Both The Plainer Dust Jacket As On This Copy And In A More Elaborate Jacket; We Believe This Is The First Issue Only By A Process Of Elimination Not Having Seen Many Different Bindings And Dust Jackets. Book With Light Wear Gilt Brilliant No Marks. Dust Jacket With Wear Small Losses/Chips At Corners Not Price Clipped Slight Browning To Spine Panel. Philosophical Library hardcover
rif. 23277Couverture rigide. Bon/1960. in-8. Paris 1960 in-8 6 57 3pp broché Traduit de l'anglais par Solovine et Tonnelat. Cet ouvrage forme l'appendice à la 5° édition de ""Meaning of Relativity"" décembre 1954 unknown
rif. 18299Couverture rigide. Bon/1924. in-8. Paris Gauthier-Villars 1924-1926 in-8 2 vol. XVI 331 1; XVI 318pp Demi-percaline lie de vin à coins avec titre encollé sur le dos Première édition française traduite par Gustave Létang d'après la quatrième édition allemande revue et augmentée par l'auteur. Dans cet important ouvrage qui fut publié à Brunswick en 1911 et 1916 l'auteur énonce diverses applications sur le principe de la relativité. Premier volume : le principe de la relativité et la transformation de Lorentz. Second volume : la relativité générale et la théorie de la gravitation d'Einstein cf. DSB VIII p. 53. Max von Laue 1879-1960 obtint le prix Nobel de physique 1914 pour ses recherches sur les images de la diffraction des rayons X par les cristaux. Nombreuses annotations manuscrites au stylo sur plusieurs pp Exemplaires en parfait état. unknown
rif. 697874291Springer . Papeback. New. pp. 400 Springer unknown
1955rif. 21242781955. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1955. offered with:BLACKETT Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for 'Fabian Publications ltd in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946. offered with:BLACKETT Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for 'Fabian Publications Ltd in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946.8vo. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine in yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black; pp. 22 2 blank; maps and tables in the text spine of jacket sunned a little spotting to back cover small closed tear to back flap hinge c. 10 mm lettering to spine rubbed small chip to upper joint; very good; contemporary Foyles label to pastedown 'P. M. S. Blackett' see below with Blackett's ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper.First English edition with a preface by Einstein of this work arguing for nuclear disarmament translated by the gardener novelist and anarchist Edward Byams this copy from the library of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Patrick Blackett whose own work is discussed at length in the book.Jules Moch 1893-1985 worked as a French Resistance organiser during the war later became a senior minister in several post-war governments and was France's delegate to the UN Disarmament Committee for 1951-1960. It was this latter role that informed the principles he sets forth in Human Folly which argue for multilateral nuclear disarmament. Divided into two parts the first examines the destructive capacities of modern warfare before tracing the recent history of disarmament negotiations. Moch attempts to represent both Soviet and Western positions with fairness concluding that the divisions between the two are gradually narrowing. Though he does not regard the situation as entirely hopeless he presents it as one of pressing urgency. The preface by Albert Einstein one of Moch's most eminent supporters makes clear peace can only arise from political will: 'Those who do not believe in the possibility of the attainment of a lasting and assured peace or have not the courage to act accordingly are ripe for destruction' p. 8. Provenance: front free endpaper with the ownership inscription of Patrick Blackett 1897-1974 with his occasional underlining throughout and one word 'Target' in pencil to the top of p. 10. Blackett was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation including experiments demonstrating nuclear transmutation and important early research into the positron. During the Second World War he headed Operational Research at the Admiralty where his statistical criticism of the RAF blanket bombing campaigns led to increasing ostracism from the military authority. His opposition to mass destruction later informed his belief that Britain should not develop nuclear weapons. Combined with his openly socialist views this attracted the attention of MI5 and led to his inclusion on George Orwell's list of alleged 'crypto-communists' contributing to his marginalisation by the post-war Labour government. Blackett's book The Military and Economic Consequences of Atomic Energy 1948 is discussed at length by Moch pp. 117-19. Written before the development of second-generation thermonuclear weapons Blackett had estimated that thousands of atomic bombs would be required to destroy the United States or the Soviet Union when at the time only a few dozen existed. As Moch observes on p. 121 however 'today a few dozen thermonuclear bombs would produce the same results'. It is particularly notable that Blackett has not annotated the passages explicitly discussing his work. This copy of Human Folly is offered with Blackett's pamphlet The Atom and the Charter which discusses the extent to which 'the advent of atomic bombs necessitates changes in the procedure for the application of sanctions under the Charter of the United Nations Organisation' issued by Victor Gollancz and the socialist Fabian Society on behalf of the Association of Scientific Workers a scientific trade union of which Blackett was president. hardcover
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1938rif. mon0000583392Cambridge University Press 1938T. hardcover. Acceptable. 2.7919 in x 19.5431 in x 12.9442 in. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Cambridge University Press hardcover
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