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1918ref. 581Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1918. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN'S DISCUSSION OF MACH'S PRINCIPLE a theory Einstein names and one which was historically important to the inspiration that would lead to general relativity. Mach's principle states that "local physical laws are determined by the large-scale structure of the universe" Wikipedia. To Einstein Mach's principle posited the belief that inertia originates in a kind of interaction between bodies. "So strongly did Einstein believe at that time in the relativity of inertia that in this paper he stated it as being on equal footing three principles on which a satisfactory theory of gravitation should rest: 1. The principle of relativity as expressed by general covariance. 2. The principle of equivalence. 3. Mach's principle the first time this term entered the literature" Pais The Science of Albert Einstein 287. Einstein brought Mach's principle into mainstream physics while working on general relativity. Indeed it was Einstein who first coined the phrase Mach's principle. Weil 96. Boni 100. Collected Papers 1918e. ALSO IN THIS VOLUME Max Born's Electron theory of natural optic rotation processes in isotropic and anisotropic liquids pp. 177-240. CONDITION & DETAILS: Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. 8vo. 8 x 5 inches; 200mm x 125mm; Full volume with front original wrap of each issue 1-8 is bound in the rear. Handsomely rebound in three-quarter calf over marbled paper boards; four raised bands at the spine; gilt-lettered and tooled. Very tightly bound. Ex-libris with five numbers written in a light hand on the title page and a very occasional round stamp within. Very good condition. Johann Ambrosius Barth hardcover
1981ref. 400909Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover; 553 pages. Scarce. Red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Minor edgewear. Previous owner's name inked on outside page ends stamp on ffep. Pages white flat unmarked. VERY GOOD Massachusetts Institute of Technology hardcover
1931ref. 73651-A-64388Berlin: Propyläen 1931. Signed by Johan Dijkstra on the title page. Cloth binding gilted. Many tipped-in ills in color and many ills in b/w. 655 p. -Boards worn around the edges dedication in ink on the fly-leaf but otherwise the book is in very good condition. Johan Dijkstra 1896-1978 was a Dutch artist and one of the foudners of Groninger Kunstkring De Ploeg. Propyläen hardcover
ref. 1412924693.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. Z1-T-004-02093Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd unknown
1922ref. 432871922. Einstein Albert 1879-1955 and Paul Ehrenfest 1880-1933. Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 11 1922. 31-34pp. 229 x 155 mm. Original printed self-wrappers. Light toning but fine otherwise. First Edition Offprint Issue. In 1922 the physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach conducted a now-classic experiment in which a beam of silver atoms was streamed through an inharmonious magnetic field in order to observe the atoms' deflection patterns. Rather than a random and continuous distribution as predicted by classical theory the atoms passing through the field were deflected up or down by a specific amount demonstrating that they had intrinsically quantum properties. The Stern-Gerlach experiment corroborated the Bohr-Sommerfeld model of the atom and strongly influenced later developments in 20th century physics. However the experiment also created some serious difficulties for quantum physicists in the period before the rise of the "new" quantum mechanics. Einstein and Ehrenfest addressed one of these difficulties-connected with space quantization-in their joint paper in which "they dealt in particular with the problem of how the orbits of the atom would obtain their discrete directions which they exhibit while passing through the inhomogeneous magnetic field. Under the assumption that the mechanism causing the orientation was provided by the interaction with the radiation field Einstein and Ehrenfest estimated that for a field strength of 10000 G a change in the direction of the orbit would take place in roughly 1011 s; this long time interval would be reduced in the presence of heat radiation at room temperature . . . to about 109 s. How could they asked the experimental situation be explained which implied that the discrete orientations of the orbits in silver atoms were obtained in less than 10-4 s. In order to deal with this evident puzzle Einstein and Ehrenfest proposed two alternatives: first that the silver atoms were always in the states of spatial quantization; second the orientations of the electron orbits arose from an interaction of the atoms with the radiation field which involved much smaller reaction times . . . However they found that both alternatives created considerable difficulties in the understanding of the atomic processes . . . Thus Einstein and Ehrenfest concluded: 'The difficulties mentioned above show how unsatisfactory are both interpretations of the results found by Stern and Gerlach'" Mehra & Rechenberg The Historical Development of Quantum Theory 1 pp. 443-444. Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 328. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 121. . unknown
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1945ref. 007988Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1945. Small repairs at spine ends; library ink stamp on front flyleaf; embossed stamp on title page. First Edition in French. Original Printed Wrappers. Good Plus. Gauthier-Villars Paperback
ref. 6c770Ad. Mampe Bln. 1886. 60/45 S. Leinen Stempel auf Titel. - Widmung des Herausgebers auf Titel - unknown
ref. 1017669767.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. PrakashN-9780691191812PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. PAPER BACK. New. ENGLISH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS unknown
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2009ref. G1934941468I5N10Red and Black Publishers 2009. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Red and Black Publishers paperback
2004ref. 24446London: The Folio Society 2004. A first Folio edition second printing of Relativity - The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein published by The Folio Society London in 2004 authorised translation by Robert W. Lawson and introduced by Roger Penrose. A fine copy in a fine slipcase with some light shelf wear to the paper-covered boards. The Folio Society hardcover
2026ref. x-9376461843Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2026. Hardcover. New. 176 pages. 8.50x5.51x0.79 inches. Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd hardcover
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ref. 123594London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1920. . First edition first impression; 8vo; portrait frontispiece equations and diagrams within the text separately paginated 8-page publisher's ads at rear occasional pencilled marks in the text spotting to the edges of text block and occasionally the contents free endpapers tanned; original red cloth titles to spine in gilt and to upper board in blind spine rolled and just a little faded a few tiny bumps to the edges of the boards a very good copy; 138pp. First edition in English. First English language edition first impression of Einstein's first popular treatment of relativity. This copy from the library of British physicist Leslie Fleetwood Bates 1897-1978 who did his doctoral work under Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge and became a specialist in ferromagnetism. Einstein's general theory of relativity 'one of history's most imaginative and dramatic revisions of our concepts of the universe' was completed in a frenzy of work at the end of 1915 Isaacson Einstein: His Life and Universe p. 223. The following year he published in German Relativity: The Special and the General Theory an account intended to be accessible to the general public and which he tested by reading drafts to his stepdaughter Margot. Einstein took the opportunity to publish the present English language edition when interest in general relativity exploded after the theory was confirmed by Arthur Eddington's eclipse observations in 1919. This edition includes an important new appendix on Eddington's work titled 'The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity' that was not present in the previous German edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. hardcover
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1920ref. 140949340London: Methuen & Co 1920. First Edition. Near Fine. First British edition first printing. xiii 3 138 2 8 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in blind on front board and gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear and fading to covers light foxing to upper textblock edge. Light foxing and offsetting to endpapers bookseller ticket to back pastedown and light toning to contents. Binding starting at pp. 33 and 97. A much nicer copy than normally found. The first British edition of Einstein's seminal work translated by Robert W. Lawson from the third German edition. Einstein's introduction to his revolutionary theory was written to be accessible to the general public. Methuen & Co unknown
1920ref. 001584New York: Henry Holt and Company 1920. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Henry Holt and Company 1920. 8vo 168 pp. Dark blue cloth. Gilt titles to spine and front board. Gilt entirely faded from the spine moderately to the spine. Light foxing to the title and frontispiece. Interior clean. Binding is tight. Very good. A very acceptable copy of a scarce and important book. Henry Holt and Company hardcover
ref. ABE-1752751861435FOLIO A most attractive and beautifully produced Folio edition. As new in slipcase. FIRST PRINTING THUS. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. FOLIO hardcover
1921ref. 51498London: Methuen & Co. 1921. Sixth English edition 8vo. xvi 138 4 advertisement 2 8 advertisement pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author owner's signature to fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth spine sunned with a small mark a couple of further marks to the foot of the lower cover. Including a translation of Einstein's preface to the first German edition of 1916 and his short note from the third edition of 1918. Also a biographical note on the author and an appendix - "The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity" - by the translator the latter composed specifically for this edition. First published in English the year before. London: Methuen & Co. unknown
1921ref. 35419London: Methuen 1921. Fourth edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Spine somewhat faded. Translation by Robert W. Lawson; Frontis portrait of the author and five diagrams; xiii 138 8 publisher's catalogue; Bookplate of Hugh Ripman. Methuen unknown
ref. mon0003992242Blurb 10/17/2025 12:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 0.4724 9.2126 6.1811. Blurb hardcover
1921ref. z0001New York: Henry Holt and Company 1921. Early printing of Einstein's popular explanation of his theories of relativity intended for those interested in the theory but not versed in advanced mathematics. This printing from 1921 first published in English the previous year based on the third German edition. Hardcover as pictured lacking the jacket. General wear boards bowed minor chips & scuffs endsheets badly foxed & tanned; some foxing extends to the first few pages; no jacket. Text clean; xiii blank 168 pages; equations brief bibliography index. . Early Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover
