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1923rif. 28359Berlin 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.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
1913rif. 38832Berlin J.A. Barth 1913. Later full cloth. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 40. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck." VIII1056 pp. 1 plate. Einstein paper: pp. 551-60. Internally fine and clean. The whole volume offered. First edition. In this paper "Some arguments for the existance of a molecular agitation at the absolute zero point" Einstein derives Planck's radiation law without the usual discontinuity assumptions.The volume contains also papers by W. Pauli Stark Nordström and others. - Weil No 53. hardcover
1928rif. 28361Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1928. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabruck aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-7. Fine fresh copy. First 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.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
1911rif. 38841Leipzig J.A. Barth 1911. Contemp. hcalf spine gilt. "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 34. Hrsg. von W.Wien und Max Planck." VIII1032 pp. 6 plates. Einstein papers: pp. 165-169; pp. 170-174; pp.; 175-176; p. 590; pp. 591-592. Fine and clean. The whole volume offered. First edition of all 5 papers. In "Relation between elastic behaviour and specific heat of solid bodies with monatomic molecules" Einstein comments Sutherlands importent paper in Philosophical Magazine from 1910. Sutherland made the importent remark that the infrared eigenfrequencies of solid bodies have their origin possibly in the elastic vibrations of these bodies. Einstein impressed by this remark adds that electrically charged ions are the sources of optical vibrations whreas elastic vibrations are caused by the mutual motion of the entire molecule. Hence he prefers to test the hypothesis of Sutherland by solid bodies which are composed of monatomic molecules."Lanczos. - Weil Nos 38 39 this with an asterix denoting major work40 1-2 and 41. unknown
1927rif. 46968Berlin Julius Springer 1927. Lex8vo. In "Die Naturwissenschaften" 15. jahrgang 1927. Entire volume offered bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to upper capitals otherwise a fine and clean copy. Einstein: Pp. 273-76; Born: Pp. 238-42; Planck: Pp. 529-31; Sommerfeld: Pp. 825-32; Frisch: Pp. 321-326; pp. 963-968. Entire volume: XXV1100016 pp. First edition of all papers. The Einstein paper is his contribution to the Anniversary volume of Newton's death. Frisch received the Nobel Prize for his works on animal psychology and behaviour in 1975.Weil No 158. - Planck: Akademie No. 165 - K. v. unknown
1908rif. 39155Leipzig J.A. Barth 1908. 2 contemp. hcalf and hcloth. Spines slightly rubbed. In "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck" vol. 26 and 27. VI1032 and plates pp. VIII1112 pp. and plates.- Einstein & Laub papers: pp.532-541 pp. 541-550 pp. p. 232. Whole volumes offered. First editions of all three papers.- Volume 26 contains also a first printing of Max Planck. "Zur Dynamik bewegter Systeme". Pp. 1-34. Planck Akademie No 76. - Weil: 22 1-2 and 23. hardcover
1924rif. 47162Berlin 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. The occasion was the Centenary Year of Thomson's birth and Einstein wrote 'Zum hundertjährigen 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 Einstein changed the world of physics forever with the publication of his radical new ideas on special relativity."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 The volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary phycisians. Weil 140. hardcover
1911rif. 38845Leipzig Hirzel 1911. 4to. Contemp. modest hcloth. Light wear to spine. Stamp on title. "Physikalische Zeitschrift. Hrsg. von E. Riecke und F. krüger. Zwölfter Jahrgang." XXIII1256 pp Illustrated. Einstein paper pp. 509-10. The whole volume offered. First printing of Einstein's paper on the Paradox of Ehrenfest first presented by Paul Ehrenfest in 1909.Weil No 44. hardcover
1906rif. 39057Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1906. Bound in a fine recent hmorocco. Gilt lettering on spine. "Annalen der Physik" Bd. 20 Heft 8 pp. 433-640. The Einstein paper pp. 627-633. First edition of this paper in the periodical form in which Einstein shows that the conservation of mass is a special application of his energy principle E= Mc2 - "Einstein considers a weightless horizontal cylinder filled with electromagnetic radiation and closed to the external world. A certain amount of radiating energy E moves from the left end of the cylinder to the right end transferring a certain amount of momentum due to radiation pressure to the left end which translates the cylinder to the left. When the radiation arrives at the right end the motion stops. We now imagine that a practically massless body absorbs this radiation moves back to the left and deposits it to its original state. Then the body moves back to right end into its original position. Now a complete cycle has taken place the system is back in its original state but the center of mass has moved by a certain amount to the left. This process can be repeated any number of times with the result that a body all by itself without any external forces can change its centre of mass by an arbitrary amount in contradiction to all physical evidence. This conclusion is avoided if we assume that the energy E is associated with the mass M=E/c2 in which case the centre of mass remains permanently at rest in agreement with our ecpectations." Cornelius Lanczos. - Weil: 13. unknown
1924rif. 38641Berlin 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
1911rif. 46958Leipzig Barth 1911. Plain wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik" Vierte Folge Bd. 35 No 9. With titlepage to vol. 35. Pp. 617-816 a. 3 plates. Entire issue offered. Einstein'spaper: pp. 679-694. Clean and fine. First edition. In the paper "Elementary observations concerning the thermal molecular motion in solid bodie" he continues his earlier investigations of the specific heat of solids in which the heat agitation of solids was reduced to a monochromatic oscillation of the atom and the specific heat calculated on the basis of the quantum treatment of an oscillator put in the radiation field. Here he deals with with the discrepancies between his formula of the measurements at low temperature." Cornelius Lanzos.Weil: 42. - Boni: 38. unknown
1923rif. 38826Berlin Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1923. 4to. Uncut and partly unopened in orig. wrappers to issue XXVIII-XXIV of "Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften". Wrappers with nicks and tears especilly frontwrapper with marginal loss. Die Energieschwankungen.pp. 350-354. - Bemerkung zu Quantenstatistik.pp. 355-58.- Bietet die Feldtheorie.pp. 359-364. - Zur Theorie der von glühende.pp. 334-348. All four papers first edition. - Planck: Akademie both :145. - Eionstein: Weil No 137. unknown
1926rif. 465401926. Royal8vo. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper "Überreicht 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.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.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. 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."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 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".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.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."Boni 160; Weil 153. unknown
1912rif. 29311Leipzig Barth 1912. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip taped. Kept in a cloth-box. In: "Annalen der Physik IV Bd. 38" pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. The whole issue present= Bd. 38 Heft 2 pp.249-472. Both papers in first edition and they are considered as the first appearance of a Nonlinear Field Equation for Gravitation. - "Einstein published two remarkable memoirs in 1912 which were efforts to construct a complete theory of gravitation incorporating the equivalence principle. In these memoirs Einstein supposed that the gravitational field can be characterized completely by one function the local speed of light analogous to the Newtonian description where only the gravitational potential appears. By an extraordinary argument he extended the potential equation of Newton.In his second Memoir in 1912 he used the equivalence principle to show the influence of a static gravitational field on electromagnetic and thermal processes." DSB IV p.320 ff. - Weil No. 47 and 48. hardcover
1924rif. 49431Berlin Springer 1924. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth. In "Zeitschrift für 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. Weil 139 143a hardcover
1930rif. 46969New 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. 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.Weil no 174a. hardcover
1931rif. 28366Berlin 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.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
1906rif. 50324Leipzig 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 Weil no. 14 hardcover
1920rif. 29309Berlin Julius Springer 1920. Clothbacked boards. Bound with orig. printed wrappers. Small inkspots in inner margins of wrappers. 15 pp. First edition. - Weil No. 111. hardcover
1953rif. 46832Leiden 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
1931rif. 38647Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften 1931. 4to. Orig. printed green wrappers in Sitzungsberichte 1931 Heft XIII-XV pp. 257-65. Small nicks to frontwrapper. First edition in the periodical form. - Weil: 180. unknown
1930rif. 28376Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1930. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-13. Fine fresh copy. First edition in the rare Offprint with its separate printed title and separate pagination. Se Weil No. 170 not mentioning this.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
1941rif. 46476Tucuman 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."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.Weil: 208. - Boni: 243. unknown
1938rif. 42901Paris Freien Deutschen Hochschule 1938. Orig. printed wrappers. In. "Zeitschrift für Freie deutsche Forschung" Vol. I no. 1:pp. 5-19 a. no. 2 pp. 1-14. Whole issues present: "Nummer" 1 u. 2. pp. 1-168 a. pp. 1-144. The German version from the same year in which the paper was printed in "Franklin Institute Journal" vol. 221 1936. - Weyl. 197. unknown
1916rif. 38829Leipzig J.A. Barth 1916. Orig. printed wrappers. Frontwrapper lacking lower left coener. "Annalenn der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 51. 6. Heft." =1916 No. 22 pp. 577-684 and 3 plates. Einstein's paper: pp. 639-42. Internally clean and fine. First edition. Weil No 81. unknown