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réf. 184029/9/54. The fullest summation we have seen by Einstein comparing relativity to Newtonian concepts of space and time Immanuel Kant took both Euclidean geometry and the Newtonian laws of motion to be synthetic a priori principles which from Kant’s point of view function as necessary presuppositions for applying our fundamental concepts of space time matter and motion to our sensible experience of the natural world meaning they are fixed necessary conditions. This idea rested on the absolute nature of space and time the work of Newton and the relationship between geometry and physics. In 1905 while a young patent clerk and physicist in Bern Switzerland Albert Einstein obtained his doctorate and published a paper that explained his newly developed Special Theory of Relativity. This unlocked many mysteries of the universe and introduced the world to ""e=mc2"" equating mass and the speed of light with energy. It established that time and space are not fixed and in fact change to maintain a constant speed of light regardless of the relative motions of sources and observers. Just 10 years later in 1915 Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity which described the universe as a four-dimensional continuum with time added as the fourth dimension where gravitational effects are explained by the warping of space-time. In this theory Einstein incorporated gravity as a geometric property of space-time. The impact of Einstein's work between 1905 and 1915 challenged many principles of physics that had been accepted for centuries. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for his work. Time Magazine named him the Person of the Century for the 20th century for his discoveries in relativity and space-time. Einstein is the most important scientist since Isaac Newton and probably the most famous in history. Space and time were considered relativistic more subjective and not the fixed a priori notions that had long permeated the mathematical and scientific worlds. Max Fischler was a California scientist who was interested in the implications of this distinction: were space and time now to be studied together in this context only or were the nature of space and the nature of time different In special relativity what appears simultaneous to one person might not to another - they are relative. You cannot separate space and time; they occur subjectively and semi-dependently but are not tied to the content of that space. With General Relativity space-time remains but matter warps it. It's a field like the sheet of a trampoline but reacts to matter. One needs all four dimensions of space-time and without them the others don't exist. You need matter for space. On September 5 1954 he wrote to Einstein: "".Can anything in your theory of Relativity be said to throw new light on the nature of space and time themselves Or must we rest satisfied with the purely new logical treatment of these conceptions In other words does the new view of space and time as space-time carry any new meaning ontologically beyond the purely mathematical and logical relationship between the two. Or to put it differently: When Minkowski in his famous words said 'Space by itself and time by itself must not sink into the mere shadows and only a kind of union of the two can preserve an independent existence' did he not attach some new real meaning to the 'spacetime' which the old independent notions of space and time could not convey If so in what does this new meaning consist."" Four days later Einstein replied in this letter: Typed letter signed in German on his personal blind embossed letterhead Princeton September 9 1954 to Max Fishler. ""The expression cited in the second paragraph only signifies the wish for logical clarity in the formal expressions. De facto the justification for concepts lies in their ability to comprehend the empirically given. ""In classical mechanics space and time were completed existences which had to be presupposed as real a priori in order to give meaning to the laws of motion. It was a reality in the same sense as the reality of matter; even governing the latter. In this sense Kant was entirely wrong. ""The case was the same as regards the Special Theory of Relativity only that an objective separation of space and time was abandoned in the sense that there could no longer be any objective simultaneity. Here too the four dimensional space is a reality independently of the physical content of space. ""Regarding the General Theory of Relativity however this is principally different. What we call ""space"" is here only an extension of a Field dimensionality hence no longer independent of the content of space. It is real in the same sense as matter but has no real existence independently of matter. When the field is taken away there does not remain any space but just nothing.” Letters of Einstein directly relating to relativity are increasingly uncommon and this is one of the finest such letters we have had. unknown books
1958réf. 33773Sporosky 1958. Flexible Covers. Very Good. Flexible Covers. Flexible green cloth boards with gilt title in Japanese to spine. Creasing to covers and spine. Housed in a beige cardboard slipcase with Japanese titling to spine and front panels. Wear and browning to case. All text in Japanese with one page in Russian. Includes several photographic illustrations many equations and a few diagrams. Foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Clean interior overall; however some passages have been underlined in pen. 339 pages. SCI/010220. (Sporosky) unknown books
1979réf. 311182Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1979. hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by A.P. French. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams. xx 332 pages. Tall 8vo red cloth d.w. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1979. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Harvard University Press unknown books
1994réf. S11423New York:: Warner Books 1994. 1994. Small 8vo. 179 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0446670111 Warner Books, (1994). unknown books
1996réf. 1418697New York: George Braziller 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 92 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good blue cloth and tan paper slip case. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with tan lettering to spine. Minor shelf wear. Small indentations on top of first few pages. Shelved on the Front Table. 1418697. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. George Braziller hardcover books
1915réf. 140945614Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1915. First edition. First edition. iv viii 762 8 pp. Bound in publisher's three quarter maroon cloth with marbled paper sides gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with rubbing along edges; a few marks to prelims text otherwise free of markings; hint of foxing to edges. Bookplate on paste down. A German-language physics review with the first book publication of two articles by Albert Einstein as well as work by a number of famous physicists of the early 20th century. B.G. Teubner unknown books
1908réf. 50421Leipzig 1908. 1 Planck Max 1858-1947. Zur dynamik bewegter systeme. In Annalen der Physik 26 6: 1-34 pp. 2 Einstein Albert 1879-1965 and Jakob Laub 1882-1962. Über die elektromagnetischen grundgleichungen für bewegte Körper. In Annalen der Physik 26 8: 532-40 pp. Boni 22 Weil 22. 3 Einstein A. and J. Laub. Über die im elektromagnetischen felde auf ruhende Körper ausgeubten ponderomotorischen Krafte. In Annalen der Physik 26 8: 541-50 pp. Boni 23 Weil 23. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine. Figs. Text-illust. 230 x 141 mm. Whole volume: viii 1032 pp. 8 plates 3 folding 3 b/w silver photos. Spine a little worn but still Very Good. Approximate English translations of titles: 1 "On the dynamics of moving systems". 2 "On the fundamental electromagnetic equations for moving bodies;" and 3 "On the ponderomotive forces exerted on bodies at rest in the electromagnetic field." "Einstein wrote no. 2 above and "Elementary theory of Brownian motion" in Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie 14 1908: 235-239 pp. in a three-week period with Jakob Laub his first scientific collaborator to address the problems of formulating relativistically invariant equations for electromagnetic fields in moving media first raised by Hermann Minowski the year before." Calaprice An Einstein Encyclopedia. 2015. A correction to this paper no. 2 was published later in the year in vol. 27 1908: 232 and a supplement for the following year in vol. 28 1909: 445-447. Elaborating on the relativistic transformation of Maxwell's vacuum equations . . . Einstein and Laub also consider the displacement vector D and the magnetic induction B. Weil's Einstein Bibliography nos. 22 23. Boni's Einstein Checklist nos. 22 23. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck 1858-1947 was a German theoretical physicist who was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta" nobelprize.org. Planck revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes as the originator of the quantum theory. Jakob Laub 1882-1962 was a physicist who is best known for his work in the early period of special relativity having worked alongside Albert Einstein during that time. . unknown books
1980réf. 2611New York: np 1980. First edition. Clamshell box. Fine. EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE SUITE OF SEVEN LARGE SILVER PRINTS FROM EINSTEIN'S FAMOUS PHOTO SHOOT AT PRINCETON WITH ROMAN VISHNIAC. Each print is signed by Vishniac and dated "At Princeton 1942" in his hand below the image and numbered on the back. "One day Vishniac decided to visit Albert Einstein at Princeton to offer greetings from mutual friends in Berlin. Uninvited he hoped Einstein would pose for a portrait but Einstein had little interest. Vishniac recalled: It was a singular experience. An idea had suddenly come to him and the room was filled with the movement of the great man's thought. I waited several minutes and then when I saw that he did not intend to say anything more to me and that he was off in a world of his own I started taking pictures. Einstein later admitted that a Vishniac photograph taken that day was his favorite portrait" Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Vishniac provided details about this portolfio in a letter to an original recipient the letter is not included here explaining: The size of the edition's limitation is uncertain due to my age and only spare time to make them. The most expensive portfolios - Ansel Adams Kertesz - are limited in large numbers I can never measure up - 999 1001 and similar. The originality of Portfolio "Einstein" consists of its special character. It is made not to get images but the feeling that you are present during the creativity by the Great Man. All pictures are made with "hidden camera" method. The value of this portfolio is great and can hardly be estimated today. Princeton/New York: 1942 negatives; 1980 silver prints. Elephant folio clamshell box approx. 17x21 in. housing seven silver prints. Image size: approx. 10.25 x 13.25 in.; with matte 16x20 in. A few minor blemishes to box. Photos in fine condition. RARE. np unknown books
1913réf. 50339Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1913. Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Einige argumente fur die annahme einer molekularen agitaation beim absoluten nullpunkt. In Annalen der Physik 40 pp.551-560. With: Otto Stern 1888-1969. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Whole volume: 1056 pp. 1 plate. 210 x 130 mm. A very good copy. "Some arguments for the assumption of molecular agitation at absolute zero." In this paper Einstein and Stern show that the quantum theory of solids to give the best agreement with experiments at normal temperatures seems to demand that at absolute zero a residual energy would remain in the solids which they term "zero-point energy." They thus introduced this important concept to physics." p. 292. Calaprice Kennefick & Shulmann. An Einstein Encyclopedia. 2015. Otto Stern was a German-American physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He was the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize with 82 nominations in the years 1925-1945 ultimately winning in 1943 "for his contribution to the development of the molecular rat method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton". In 1912 Stern did his doctoral dissertation in concentrated solutions. After receiving his Ph.D. degree Stern took advantage of his economic independence to join Albert Einstein at Prague. Stern was with Einstein from the spring of 1912 until 1914. Weil's Bibliography no. 53. . Johann Ambrosius Barth unknown books
1929réf. 6551Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommision bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co 1929. First separate edition. Fine. 6 pages in printed wraps. Not exactly an "offprint" since the pages are numbered from 1 and the pamphlet is given its own title page this is considered the first separate edition of a paper Einstein published in the periodical of the Prussian Academy. It is considered Einstein's initial effort having established general and special relativity to find a unified theory uniting gravity and electromagnetism a problem he struggled with for his remaining life. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommision bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co paperback books
1906réf. 38892Leipzig 1906. Einstein Albert 1879-1955. 1 Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen. In Ann. d. Physik 4th series 19 1906: 289-306. 2 Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung. In ibid.:371-381. Whole volume 8vo. viii 1080pp. 5 plates. 213 x 143 mm. Original cloth spine faded split in upper half of spine inner hinge cracking. Very good. 1 First Edition in Journal Form Revised of Einstein's doctoral thesis ranked by his biographer as being on the same level as his 1905 papers on relativity the light quanta and Brownian motion. In his thesis Einstein presented a new theoretical method for determining molecular radii and Avogadro's number the number of atoms or molecules needed to make up a mass equal to a substance's atomic or molecular weight in grams. The thesis appeared in print in the spring of 1905; in the journal version published at the beginning of 1906 Einstein added a brief appendix containing an improved value of Avogadro's number. Einstein's biographer Abraham Pais wrote of Einstein's thesis as follows: "It is not sufficiently realized that Einstein's thesis is one of his most fundamental papers. Histories and biographies invariably refer to 1905 as the miraculous year because of his article on relativity the light-quantum and Brownian motion. In my opinion the thesis is on a par with the Brownian motion article. In fact in some-not all-respects his results on Brownian motion are by-products of his thesis work emphasis ours. This goes a long way toward explaining why the paper on Brownian motion was received by the Annalen der Physik on May 11 1905 only eleven days after the thesis had been completed. "Three weeks after the thesis was accepted this same journal received a copy of the thesis for publication. It was published only after Einstein supplied a brief addendum in January 1906. . . . As a result of these various delays the thesis appeared as a paper in the Annalen der Physik only after the Brownian motion article had come out in the same journal. This may have helped create the impression in some quarters that the relation between diffusion and viscosity-a very important equation due to Einstein and Sutherland-was first obtained in Einstein's paper on Brownian motion. Actually it first appeared in his thesis . . . ." "Quite apart from the fundamental nature of some results obtained in the thesis there is another reason why this paper is of uncommon interest: it has had more widespread practical applications than any other paper Einstein ever wrote . . . . The thesis dealing with bulk rheological properties of particle suspensions contains results which have an extraordinarily wide range of applications. They are relevant to the construction industry the motion of sand particles in cement mixes to the dairy industry the motion of casein micelles in cow's milk and to ecology the motion of aerosol particles in clouds to mention but a few scattered examples. Einstein might have enjoyed hearing this since he was quite fond of applying physics to practical situations" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 89-90. Pais notes that during the period 1970-1974 the 1906 journal version of Einstein's thesis was cited four times more often than his 1916 paper on general relativity and eight times more often than his 1905 paper on light quanta. 2 First Edition of Einstein's second paper on Brownian motion containing two further methods for finding Avogadro's number. This was the first of his papers on the subject to include the term "Brownian motion" in the title. Pais pp. 95 98. . unknown books
1941réf. 2142520/12/1941. Brigitte Kaufmann was born in Germany but when the Nazis came to power in 1933 she fled to Paris. In France Kaufmann worked as an actress under the name of Brigitte Châtel and translated documents. She met her future husband Alfred Alexander-Katz in Paris and they married in 1939; the following day her husband was taken to an internment camp. He was given the choice of being interned in a labor camp or joining the Foreign Legion and chose the latter. Alexander was then sent to Clermont in Vichy France and the family relocated there. Dr. Walter Rudlin was a social science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and actively involved in anti-fascist activities. He was the author of “The Growth of Fascism in Great Britain”. In September 1942 he left his position and joined the U.S. Board of Economic Welfare whose chair was Vice President Henry Wallace. His wife Eryl was interested in bringing Jews in Europe out of harm’s way and she knew the Alexander-Katz family. So Eryl sought to get Brigitte and her family safely out of Europe to Mexico and sought Einstein’s help. On March 12 1941 Einstein responded noting that Brigitte is his relative. “Thank you very much for your letter of March 11th. I am very gratified indeed to learn that our mutual friends Fred and Brigitte Alexander-Katz have some prospect to receive a visa into Mexico. I am certainly willing to vouch for their reliability and integrity both personal and political. I have known Mrs. Brigitte Alexander-Katz - whose family is related to mine - since she was a little girl. Her husband a very able engineer will certainly be useful to any country which receives him. If you will send me the address of the proper Mexican authority I shall gladly send any letter of recommendation desired.” This was a warm letter indeed expressing true concern and friendship for the Alexander-Katz family. On April 3 1941 Einstein again wrote Rudlin noting “Enclosed I am sending you the requested letters in the hope that they may be successful.” But there were delays and no visa so Rudlin wrote Einstein seven months later asking him to take the matter up with the Mexican government. Typed letter signed on his blind-embossed letterhead Princeton December 20 1941 to Mrs. Eryl Rudlin saying that he expects the visa to be granted but does not feel he ought to approach the Mexican government directly. “The Mexican authorities know that I am interested in the case of the Alexander-Katz family; they have kept me informed about the whole development of the matter. I have no doubt that admission to Mexico will be granted as it has been granted to hundreds of people in the same situation. I can give Mr. Alexander-Katz a recommendation but it is out of the question that I ask the Minister of Education to send him an official invitation. I have already done what could be done without intrusion.” Despite what he writes here to calm Mrs. Rudlin Einstein might have exerted some gentle pressure on Mexico by contacting the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Gilberto Bosques; or the Alexander-Katz visas may have already being granted at that moment. The Einstein Archives is silent on this subject. But soon after Einstein soon wrote this letter in 1942 a telegram to the young Alexander-Katz family arrived stating that Einstein and Rudolph Uhlman a lawyer in New York had secured visas through Ambassador Bosques for them to escape to Veracruz Mexico aboard the ship San Thomé. In Mexico Brigitte she became a noted author actress director and translator. She became the first woman in Mexico to produce and direct television programs. Speaking five languages she also worked as a translator for UNESCO and Amnesty International. Her daughter Susana and granddaughter Sophie also became actors. unknown books
1922réf. 139418Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie 1922. 32p. 48 b&w plates text in French pencil notes denoting country/region of origin of the artworks first edition in worn 10x7 inch paper boards with inkstains rough chipping to spine else good condition. Questo Volume è Apparso Nello Serie Orbis Pictus. Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie unknown books
1925réf. 140941837Berlin: No Publisher 1925. Revised edition. 783-797 pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers. About Very Good with thin tear along front wrap fold near head a little chipping to wraps at spine front wrap hinge fragile contents toned with age. This copy belonged to Hans Albert Einstein Albert Einstein's oldest son with his inkstamp at top of front wrapper; likely a presentation copy from his father. Neatly written at top of front wrapper are "41" and 163." Very rare author's offprint from Die Kulture der Gegenwart of an essay on relativity theory which was first published in 1914 revised to incorporate Einstein's later research. OCLC/WorldCat locates no physical copies. Weil 71. [No Publisher] unknown books
1914réf. 50425Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1914. 1 Einstein Albert 1879-1955 and A.driaan D.aniël Fokker 1887-1972. Die Nordströmsche Gravitationstheorie vom Standpunkt des absoluten Differentialkalküls. In Annalen der Physik 44 10: 321-328. 2 Born Max 1882-1970. Zur Raumgitter theorie des Diamanten. In Annalen der Physik 44 12: 605-642. 3 Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander 1887-1961. Zur Dynamik elastisch gekoppelter Punktesysteme. In Annalen der Physik 44 14: 916-934. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1914. Whole volume: viii 1272 pp. 22 plates Numbered Taf. I-XXII. Taf. I-IX: b/w/ silver photos; Taf. XI w/ one b/w silver photo; Taf. XII is folding and XIII XIV are b/w silver photos; Taf. XV and XVI are large folding tables; Taf. XVII XVIII XIX b/w/ silv.photos; and Taf.XX--XXII are photographs of X-ray images. Figs. Text-illust. 210 x 140 mm. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine. Very good. Along the margin of p. 802 written in pencil are the words: "Mallock R.S. 1910" probably written in Lord Rayleigh's hand most likely in reference to the title "The dampening of sound by frothy liquids" by A. Mallock in Proc. R.S. Lond ser. A vol. 84: 391-94. London 1911. A.D. Fokker 1887-1972 was a Dutch physicist and cousin to aeronautical engineer Anthony Fokker 1890-1939. He was musically inclined having invented the 31EDO pipe organ. He earned his doctorate in 1913 continuing his studies with Albert Einstein Ernest Rutheford 1871-1937 and William Bragg 1862-1942. In his 1913 thesis he derived the Fokker-Planck equation with Max Planck 1858-1947. Fokker made contributions to special relativity and general relativity particularly the effects of the curvature of space-time formally called "geodetic precession". Wikipedia. . Johann Ambrosius Barth unknown books
1931réf. 209587Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag 1931. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the edges and corners. Rubbing to the spine. Rubbing to the end pages. Stains to the inside corners of the end pages with no text or image affected. Some foxing to the margins of the pages and plates. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. A green casebound book with a blue fabric spine. There is gilt text and design on the spine. There is a gilt design on the front cover. Black textblocks. 660 pages; 60 plates total profusely illustrated with a good number of color tipped-in plates on heavy black pages with protective rice paper the remainders are black-and-white plates on heavy black paper. Text is in German. Contents are as follows: Henri Matisse -- Georges Rouault -- Henri Rousseau -- Andre Derain -- Amedeo Modigliani -- Roger de la Fresnaye -- Pablo Picasso -- Georges Braque -- Juan Gris -- Fernand Leger -- Andre Masson -- Joan Miro -- Gaston-Louis Roux -- Robert Delaunay -- Umberto Boccioni -- Gino Severini -- Carlo carra -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Emil Nolde -- Die Brucke -- Erich Heckel -- Max Pechstine -- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Carl Hofer -- Lyonel Feininger -- Oskar Kokoschka -- George Grosz -- Max Beckmann -- Otto Dix -- Marc Chagall -- Konstruktivisten -- Franz Marc -- Wassilij Kandinsky -- Paul Klee -- GFranzosen Spanier Italiener -- Deutsche Russen Hollander Ungarn Plastik. Propyläen-Verlag hardcover books
1926réf. 210542Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag 1926. Hardcover. VG. High quality rebinding and interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. Hardcover. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles. 576 pages illustrations some color. French text. Text is in German. Contents are as follows: Henri Matisse -- Georges Rouault -- Henri Rousseau -- Andre Derain -- Amedeo Modigliani -- Roger de la Fresnaye -- Pablo Picasso -- Georges Braque -- Juan Gris -- Fernand Leger -- Andre Masson -- Joan Miro -- Gaston-Louis Roux -- Robert Delaunay -- Umberto Boccioni -- Gino Severini -- Carlo carra -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Emil Nolde -- Die Brucke -- Erich Heckel -- Max Pechstine -- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Paula Modersohn-Becker -- Carl Hofer -- Lyonel Feininger -- Oskar Kokoschka -- George Grosz -- Max Beckmann -- Otto Dix -- Marc Chagall -- Konstruktivisten -- Franz Marc -- Wassilij Kandinsky -- Paul Klee -- GFranzosen Spanier Italiener -- Deutsche Russen Hollander Ungarn Plastik. Propylaen-Verlag hardcover books
réf. 9476EINSTEIN Carl. DIE KUNST DES 20 JAHRHUNDERTS. Berlin: Im Propylaen 1926. 4to. Cloth spine boards. 575 1 pages 43 plates. First edition. Arntzen I-19. An illustrated survey of 20th-century art featuring the work of Andre Derain Picasso Braque Juan Gris and others including 43 color photographs. Covers rubbed ex-library copy with markings front hinge internally cracked else good. unknown books
1915réf. 1766Berlin: B G Teubner 1915. First Edition. orig. publisher's cloth. A very good copy. lg. 8vo. There are text illus. throughout. This volume contains two original Einstein contributions. One is on thermodynamics and the other on his then recently published theory of relativity. In addition Lorentz Planck Wien and Zeeman have articles on related topics. The articles are authoritative and technical. The anthology was issued as an individual volume of a series publication by the publisher Teubner that appeared during the WWI. Weil # 70 & # 71. B G Teubner hardcover books
1930réf. 37421Berlin: Akad. der Wiss 1930. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Weil 169. Akad. der Wiss unknown books
1916réf. 140945574Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1916. First edition. First edition. 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with slightly toned wraps tiny stain to back wrap slightly bumped corners bookplate on verso of front wrap. An early German language work on Einstein's theory of gravitation with a foreword by the man himself. Freundlich's first book. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown books
1916réf. 19266Leipzig: J.A Barth 1916. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed wrappers on rippled paper; wrappers and interior soiled and spotted mostly likely with minor water damage. From the library of Einstein protege Dr. Kurt Eisenmann with his siganture and stamps. First separate printing of Einstein’s classic paper. Not an offprint from the Annalen der Physik as is often thought but a completely new setting of type with significant and important additions and revisions including an introduction published here for the first time which was not in the journal issue. Printing & the Mind of Man 408; Weil 80a. J.A Barth unknown books
1914réf. 2124Berlin: Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1914. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION COMMERCIAL OFFPRINT ISSUE of Einstein's important 1914 paper on the development of general relativity. "In summer 1914 Einstein felt that the new theory general relativity should be presented in a comprehensive review. He also felt that a mathematical derivation of the field equations that would determine them uniquely was still missing. "Both tasks are addressed in a long paper presented in October 1914 to the Prussian Academy for publication in its Sitzungsberichte. It is entitled 'The formal foundation of the general theory of relativity'; here for the first time Einstein gave the new theory of relativity the epithet 'general' in lieu of the more cautious 'generalized' that he had used for the Entwurf" Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. "According to John Norton 'How Einstein Found His Field Equations' this major review article was intended to convey the full content of the 1913 'Entwurf' theory: 'The principal novelty lies in the mathematical formulation of the theory. Drawing on earlier work with Marcel Grossman Einstein formulated his gravitational field equations using a variation principle. Using this richer mathematical structure Einstein offered a proof purporting to demonstrate that his theory had the maximum covariance compatible with the hole argument; that is covariance under 'justified' transformation between the 'adapted coordinate systems' he had introduced with Grossman'" Calaprice The Einstein Almanac. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften XLI 19 November 1914 pp. 1030-1085. Berlin: Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1914. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. Neat early ownership name on front wrapper. Only the slightest wear; a fine copy. Rare. Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften unknown books
1941réf. 433111941. Offprint from Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Revista Serie A 2 1941. 11-15pp. 270 x 179 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. "Address to joint meeting of the American Physics Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers Princeton Dec. 29 1941 under the title: 'Solutions of finite mass of the gravitational equations'" Weil. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 208. unknown books
2018réf. 1416142Santa Clara CA / Fullerton CA: Triton Museum of Art / Grand Central Press California State University 2018. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 287 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. General shelf wear. Textblock clean. Shelved in Artist Monographs. 1416142. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Triton Museum of Art / Grand Central Press California State University hardcover books
