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192225530Braunschweig & Berlin Germany: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn/Julius Springer 1922 1923 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann 1888-1925 was a Russian mathematician and physicist who built upon Einstein's theory of relativity and further expanded his own theories that the universe has both homogeneous looks the same from every location and isotropic looks the same in every direction. The following articles expand upon these theories: "Über die Krümmung des Raumes" "On the Curvature of Space" by Alexander Friedmann Zeitschrift für Physik 10 pp. 377-386 1922. "Notiz du der Arbeit von A. Friedmann ‘Über die Krümmung des Raumes'" "Note on the work of A. Friedmann ‘On the Curvature of Space'" by Albert Einstein Zeitschrift für Physik 16 p. 228 1923. "Über die Möglichkeit einer Welt mit konstanter negativer Krümmung des Raumes" "On the possibility of a world with constant negative curvature of space" by Alexander Friedmann Zeitschrift für Physik 21 pp. 326-332 1924. Volume 10: iv 413 pp. 8vo; Volume 16: iv 409 1 pp. 8vo; Volume 21: iv 382 pp 8vo. Each volume is ex-library with brown patterned paper boards lighter brown cloth spines and corner tips; gold embossed titling to spine. Library stamps within including stamps on title page of each volume very clean with card pocket remaining on the rear pastedown of each volume. All text in German. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn/Julius Springer hardcover books
19212545920Madrid. 1921. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 24 cm. 79 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal con lomo en piel. Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Traducida de la 12ª ed. alemana por F. Lorente de Nó. Imp. de Suc. de S. Peláez. Relatividad Física . Cubierta deslucida. Física.530.12 530 hardcover
1982059692Harry N. Abrams Inc. 1982. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. 296 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Silver And In Blind. Second Edition. The Deluxe Issue #57 Of 150 Copies Numbered Signed By Sam Francis And In Special Slipcase Of Thick Tsumugi Silk. Fine With A Few Faint And Tiny Spots Of Foxing Around Fore Edges Of Front And Rear Covers Of Book. Slipcase Shows Fading Of Blue Silk Around Both Ends. <br/> <br/> Harry N. Abrams, Inc. hardcover
1906602Leipzig: Barth 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of two important Einstein papers including one of the two papers on his Noble Prize winning work on the photoelectric effect. On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption: A continuation and development of Einstein's revolutionary first paper in 1905 on the photoelectric effect "On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light". "In a companion paper to "On a Heuristic Point." published in 1906 Einstein exposed appeal to the quantum as fundamentally counter to the ethos of classical physics: 'the theoretical bases on which Planck's radiation theory rests are different from those of Maxwell's theory'. Planck had not initially intended to quantify light-radiation itself but Einstein demonstrated that his own 'light-quantum hypothesis' was implicit in Planck's earlier work. In viewing radiation not as a continuous wave but as composed of small packets of energy later called photons Einstein was again shaking the foundations of classical physics" Honner The Description of Nature 31. Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries: "Corpuscular-wave dualism for photons. Explanation of the photoelectric effect using the quantum hypothesis of Planck. Nobel prize to A. Einstein awarded in 1921 'for services to Theoretical Physics and especially of he law of the photoelectric effect.'" Weil 12. The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy: Einstein's further development of E=mc2. Einstein boldly uses his relationship to insist that the conservation of mass is a special case of the conservation of energy and broadens the law to include not only mechanical but electromagnetic processes as well. Weil 13. IN: Annalen der Physik Vol. 20 pp. 199-206; 627-633. Leipzig: Barth 1906. Octavo modern full green morocco. Rippling to the first few leaves of volume not affecting Einstein papers. Provenance: with library stamp on series title from the prestigious Gmelin Institute after 1996 part of the Max Planck Institute. Very handsomely bound. Barth hardcover books
19212827000Madrid.: S.n. 1921. Paperback. Good. 24 cm. 79 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda artesanal. Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Traducida de la 12ª ed. alemana por F. Lorente de Nó. Imp. de Suc. de S. Peláez. Relatividad Física . Física.530.12 530 [S.n.]. paperback
191376293Leipzig ; Berlin : Teubner 1913. 1st Edition 1st Edition 38 S. ; 25cm Halbleinen [3 Warenabbildungen] 0
1931150006New York: The MacMillan Company 1931. First edition of this volume of Einstein's speeches and letters concerning his views on Zionism. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panel gilt signature to the front panel gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Translated and edited with an introduction by Leon Simon. An exceptional presentation. Einstein was a prominent supporter of both Labor Zionism and efforts to encourage Jewish-Arab cooperation. He supported the creation of a Jewish national homeland in the British mandate of Palestine but was opposed to the idea of a Jewish state "with borders an army and a measure of temporal power." In a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru dated June 13 1947 he asserted "Long before the emergence of Hitler I made the cause of Zionism mine because through it I saw a means of correcting a flagrant wrong.The Jewish people alone has for centuries been in the anomalous position of being victimized and hounded as a people though bereft of all the rights and protections which even the smallest people normally has.Zionism offered the means of ending this discrimination." Einstein's speeches lectures and letters concerning Zionism were first published in 1930 by The Soncino Press and eleven of these essays were later collected in The World as I See It published in 1933 which Einstein dedicated "to the Jews of Germany". The MacMillan Company unknown
1906003208Leipzig: J. A. Barth 1906. First Edition. Contemporary Red Cloth. Very Good. J. A. Barth Hardcover
1920001806<p>London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First English Translation. 8vo xiii pp138 complete with b/w frontis portrait of the author and 8 pages of publisher's adverts to rear. hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers red cloth binding with blind-stamped titles to front board and black titles to spine gilt totally rubbed off in good condition with sunning to spine some shelf wear to top & tail of spine and bumping to tips of boards. Inside cracked in a couple of places with front board a little loose but binding still sound and solid with a little yellowing to pages a few discreet notes and sums to page 115-118 with the occasional mark to pages and some spotting to fore edge. Overall a good copy of this scarce 1st edition. <br /><br /></p> Methuen & Co. Ltd hardcover
1940180281Princeton: Princeton University Press 1940. Elucidating the Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman equations First edition offprint issue of Einstein's last major contribution to the general theory of relativity. It formed part of his mathematical investigations into the structure of the theory which he spent the latter part of his life refining. "During the development of the general theory Einstein had intended to hold fast to the conservation of energy and momentum in the usual special relativistic sense as far as possible. At the same time he was driven by other considerations toward the idea that the laws should be generally covariant. These two desires proved mutually incompatible. The problem of the equation of motion of bodies is the following. The 1916 theory had a classical structure in the sense that there were both field equations the curvature of space-time is determined by the mass and motion of bodies in space-time and equation of motion of bodies the world line of small mass is a geodesic. Einstein showed that if matter is represented by a point singularity of the metric field these singularities are located on world lines that are geodesics of space time provided its metric satisfies the equation of general relativity" DSB IV p. 329. The first part of the paper was published in 1938. Large octavo pp. 10. Original wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover printed in black. Wrappers gently toned: a near-fine copy. Boni 236.1; Weil 205. unknown
1944182569London: The Jewish Agency for Palestine 1944. First separate edition of Einstein's appeal for Zionism. Einstein was one of the most prominent international supports of Zionism. He argues Palestine is the only place historically spiritually and culturally tied to the Jewish people. Whereas the Arabs with many homelands the Jews have nowhere else to go. Their claims are rooted not in conquest or nationalism but in justice and survival. The article was originally published in the Princeton Herald earlier that year. This publication prints the article alongside other speeches and letters by Einstein extracted from his 1930 About Zionism. Provenance: Jews' College Library London with their shelf mark to the front wrapper and their stamp to the front wrapper verso. Octavo. Original wrappers. Library markings see note a little creased and spotted. A good copy. unknown
19201870Budapest: A Pesti Lloyd-Társulat Könyvsajtója 1920. First separate edition. Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Cover chipped at extremities. Restored rear panel replaced with cardboard similar to original. Old ownership inscriptions on front panel. Contemporary notes and underlines throughout in pen and pencil. Pages discolored due to the acidic paper. Overall in good condition. First separate edition. Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 2 19 1 p. <p><br /> First Hungarian edition of Einstein’s Über die spezielle und allgemeine Relativitätstheorie Braunschweig 1917 published as an extract.<br /> <p><p><br /> Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. One of the earliest Hungarian publications of Einstein’s works. <br /> <p>. A Pesti Lloyd-Társulat Könyvsajtója unknown
195521242781955. 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
19403293321940. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. Fine. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. unknown
195032820558<p>In this portrait Sternberger shows Einstein dressed informally. Einstein was keenly aware of his public image and often attempted to show a cheerful visage. The common backgrounds of the two men helped the photographer to put Einstein in a relaxed state and to capture him in a more vulnerable pose.</p><p>Marcel Sternberger and Albert Einstein had known each other in Europe long before the two met again in Princeton New Jersey for this session. Before the men left Europe Einstein had furnished the preface to a book written by Sternberger.</p><p>After a warm welcome and lemonade the men settled in for the sitting. They discussed various topics including World War II and the state of American education. Although some photographs from the session show Einstein with a telltale twinkle in his eye here the great scientist appears fatigued. The seriousness of their conversation seems to have worn him down.</p><p>Still the conversation had its moments of levity. At one moment Sternberger asked Einstein to remove his suspenders. Einstein replied "I am going to lose my trousers! I can't." Einstein instead put on one of his trademark sweatshirts.</p><p>Here modern science's greatest mind is forever immortalized as only Sternberger could. He has found a depth of personality exceeding photographs produced without regard to the sitter's inner psychological state.</p><br /><p>Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in. Archivally framed. Estate Edition a limited edition of 20 copies embossed and numbered.</p><br /><p><b>$1250 unframed; framed: $1650 </b></p>
1949140941039Evanston IL: The Library of Living Philosophers Inc 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages offsetting to endsheets former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with fraying and chip at bottom spine end and short closed tear at head light edge wear toning and soiling to rear panel. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc unknown
1947316757Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 1947. Paper Back. Very Good. Letterhead of Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists on two sheets soliciting contributions to the Committee. Dated August 6 1947 the second anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. An original typed letter with a facsimile Einstein signature in blue ink. Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists unknown
1920140938929London: Methuen and Co 1920. First British Edition. Good. First British edition first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Good. Cloth heavily faded at spine spotted and lightly scratched. Previous owner details to front free endpaper. Endsheets offset from binder's glue pages toned with "Biographical Note" page chipped at top edge and pages toward rear creased at the top corner. Methuen and Co unknown books
1949140941039Evanston IL: The Library of Living Philosophers Inc 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages offsetting to endsheets former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with fraying and chip at bottom spine end and short closed tear at head light edge wear toning and soiling to rear panel. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc unknown books
192117649Berlin: Verlag Von Julius Springer 1921. First Trade Edition. Wraps. Very good. The first trade edition of Geometrie Und Erfahrung Geometry and Experience by Albert Einstein from the collection of Einstein's English translator Dr. Wilfrid Perrett. Octavo 20pp. Publisher's original wraps bound with two staples. Light soiling and wear on wraps internally clean. Includes two illustrations advertisements on verso of rear flap. Staples showing rust some wear to edges of original wraps. Weil 115 Schlipp-Shields 143 This copy is signed by Wilfrid Perrett on the front cover. This work first appeared in the Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften accompanied by an "author's offprint" which was bound in orange wrappers. Weil 114. This work is the first separate trade edition. The recipient of this copy Dr. Wilfrid Perrett worked with Dr. George Barker Jeffery to translate many of Einstein's most notable works into English. Perrett was a "distinguished German scholar" and would "overlook the literary side of the work" while Jeffery would oversee the mathematical translations. The two worked together on Das Relativitätsprinzip On the Relativity Principle beginning in 1922 and numerous other works by Einstein over his career. Jammer 113-114. Verlag Von Julius Springer unknown
19266414Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften 1926. First edition. <p>First edition very rare author's presentation offprint extremely rare author's presentation offprint not to be confused with the much more common trade separate - see below from the library of the great German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld of the notorious Einstein/Rupp experiments which demonstrated the wave-theory of light contrary to Einstein's expectations.</p>. SCIENTIFIC FRAUD: THE EINSTEIN-RUPP EXPERIMENTS. <p>First edition extremely rare author's presentation offprint not to be confused with the much more common trade separate - see below from the library of the great German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld of the notorious Einstein/Rupp experiments. "In the fall of 1926 Albert Einstein published the outline of two experiments in the Proceedings of the Berlin Academy. They addressed one of the most urgent questions in physics at the time: the experiments were to show if the emission of light was a process that was extended in time or if instead light emission occurred in an instantaneous act. Of course the first possibility would confirm a traditional oscillator-and-wave-like view whereas the second possibility would cohere well with Einstein's own ideas on light quanta. It is quite surprising that these experiments are so unfamiliar today. Apart from addressing a central question and being proposed by no lesser figure than Einstein they also circulated at a crucial moment in the history of quantum theory. Still the experiments are not mentioned in any of the standard Einstein biographies and there is no substantial treatment of them in histories of the quantum theory . The likely cause for this lack of attention is at least as surprising: the experiments were-supposedly-conducted by Emil Rupp yet a decade later Rupp was exposed as a scientific fraudster; the results obtained by Rupp in close consultation with Einstein and published back-to-back with the latter's theoretical paper were in the end generally believed to have been fabrications" Van Dongen. As Walter Gerlach of Stern-Gerlach fame said in an interview with Thomas Kuhn in 1963 "Rupp in the late twenties early thirties was regarded as the most important and most competent physicist. He did incredible things. . Later it turned out that everything that he had ever published everything was forged. This had gone on for ten years ten years!" Nevertheless "these experiments played a substantial role in developments in 1926. Most importantly they confirmed a wave picture of light when many including Einstein himself initially expected a particle-like instantaneous picture of light emission to be confirmed. After all only a few years before Compton scattering had been shown and as little as a year before the Einstein-Rupp experiments Walther Bothe and Hans Geiger had done the experiments that dismissed the BKS theory. But the experiments of Einstein and Rupp also influenced events in other ways. For instance their initial interpretation was most likely of direct importance for Max Born when he proposed the probabilistic interpretation of the wave function. The experiments further played a role in the thinking of Werner Heisenberg as he formulated his uncertainty relations . these experiments deserve renewed attention and their current obscure status is not warranted by their historical importance" Van Dongen. OCLC locates only three copies two in Switzerland one in Germany but it is unclear which of these if any are author's presentation offprints. The presentation offprint was not present in the collection of Einstein's son Hans Albert Christie's 2006 but it was in Einstein's own collection of his offprints Christie's 2008.</p> <br /> <p>Provenance: Arnold Sommerfeld 1868-1951 his characteristic numbering '46' in red pencil on front cover. "The son of a physician Sommerfeld was educated at the University of Königsberg. After teaching briefly at the universities of Göttingen Clausthal and Aachen he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Münich in 1906. Sommerfeld should have retired in 1936 in favour of his pupil Werner Heisenberg. Opposition from the Nazi party to Heisenberg's appointment prolonged Sommerfeld's tenure and it was not in fact until late 1939 that he finally retired to be succeeded not by Heisenberg but by Wilhelm Müller a Nazi aerodynamicist without a single publication in physics to his credit. Although Sommerfeld and Heisenberg were not Jewish they were regarded by the Nazis as Jewish sympathizers. Sommerfeld however survived the war and returned to his Münich chair in 1945 continuing to work at physics until he died in a car accident in 1951" Oxford Reference. "Arnold Sommerfeld was one of the most distinguished representatives of the transition period between classical and modern theoretical physics. The work of his youth was still firmly anchored in the conceptions of the nineteenth century; but when in the first decennium of the century the flood of new discoveries experimental and theoretical broke the dams of tradition he became a leader of the new movement and in combining the two ways of thinking he exerted a powerful influence on the younger generation. This combination of a classical mind to whom clarity of conception and mathematical rigour are essential with the adventurous spirit of a pioneer are the roots of his scientific success while his exceptional gift of communicating his ideas by spoken and written word made him a great teacher" Max Born p. 275. </p> <br /> <p>"Born in 1898 Rupp began his career in the 1920s studying canal rays beams of positive ions and atoms formed between an anode and cathode the latter punctured with holes or "canals" in a gas discharge tube. When these rays shoot through the canals and into a vacuum chamber the ions rapidly lose and gain charge emitting visible light that becomes less intense at the other end of the canal.</p> <br /> <p>"In his first experiments in the mid-1920s Rupp measured the coherence length of light - the distance over which the light maintains a consistent phase - emitted by hydrogen and mercury atoms in the canal rays. He measured these lengths as 62 centimeters for hydrogen and 15.2 centimeters for mercury. These were blockbuster results: A moving hydrogen atom was expected to stay coherent over a much smaller distance.</p> <br /> <p>"What's more Rupp's extra-long hydrogen canal ray seemed like it could be used to test one of physics' biggest questions at the time: Is light a particle or a wave Einstein had devised experiments to test if light was emitted instantaneously or over time but he needed a light with an extra-long coherence length - and only Rupp had achieved it.</p> <br /> <p>"After reading Rupp's 1926 paper Einstein published his own "Proposal for an Experiment on the Nature of the Elementary Process of Radiation Emission" and reached out to Rupp directly to discuss a collaboration. But because Rupp's boss at Heidelberg University the physicist Philipp Lenard was "a fervent anti-relativist - and anti-Semite" writes van Dongen Einstein chose to forgo a visit to the institution and sent instructions for Rupp to do the experiments on his own.</p> <br /> <p>"There were red flags from the start. In one instance Rupp appeared to have altered the mirrors in his interferometer the instrument he used to study interference just so into an arrangement that would obtain desired outcomes. In another instance when Einstein corrected the settings Rupp reported using for another instrument Rupp chalked the mistake up to a typo. There were other 'alarming discrepancies' in Rupp's calculations van Dongen writes and Einstein's letters show that he pushed back on several occasions. Each time Rupp responded with new results that perfectly explained the oddities Einstein questioned.</p> <br /> <p>"Initially Einstein expected to find that light was emitted instantaneously. But as the collaboration stretched on he began to expect the experiments would confirm the alternative the 'classical' theory. 'One of the reasons for his changing position likely was that that outcome had inadvertently already been corroborated by Rupp' van Dongen writes.</p> <br /> <p>"When Rupp furnished Einstein with a final set of results supporting the classical emission picture Einstein facilitated their publication in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. They were published back-to-back with a paper by Einstein explaining the theory behind the experiments in which Einstein cited Rupp's work. Einstein even helped Rupp draft his paper's abstract.</p> <br /> <p>"The association with Einstein rocketed Rupp to scientific prominence and in 1928 he accepted a position in the research labs of German electronics company AEG 'a kind of counterpart to General Electric' writes MIT physicist Anthony French in his 1999 retrospective of Rupp's case.</p> <br /> <p>"However scientists had begun voicing skepticism about Rupp's canal ray work. Among them were British spectroscopist Robert d'Escourt Atkinson who doubted Rupp's extraordinary coherence lengths and a researcher named Harald Straub who tried and failed to replicate Rupp's measurements in 1930. Rupp came down hard on Straub with a rebuttal sending photographs that supposedly showed his interference fields and forcefully defending his work in the same journal where Straub published his. Straub wrote that he had nothing else to add and the matter appeared settled.</p> <br /> <p>"But Rupp's reputation was bruised in the episode and his letters from the time indicate that his funding at AEG was drying up. He published work on electron scattering then took up experiments with positrons producing them by pounding lithium with protons. In a 1934 paper Rupp claimed to have accelerated protons at potential differences of 500 kV. This was impossible for him to have done - he simply did not have the requisite accelerator in his lab.</p> <br /> <p>"In December 1934 two of Rupp's fellow scientists at AEG brought the glaring problem to the attention of the institute's director who launched an investigation and subsequently fired Rupp. In January 1935 Rupp published the retraction statement appended to his doctor's note claiming he had no knowledge of or control over the fabrications. And later that year experimentalists Walther Gerlach and Eduard Rüchardt published 'On the Coherence Length of Light emitted by Canal Rays' which essentially confirmed that Rupp's early canal ray work was also erroneous. Amid this public humiliation Rupp experienced a nervous breakdown and spent time in a sanatorium. He never worked in physics again.</p> <br /> <p>"Einstein however escaped from the episode unscathed. Historians like van Dongen think his credulousness was an honest mistake underpinned by his desire to see his theories confirmed by experiments. Rupp's work and life are now a footnote but following his downfall it appears that German scientists mentioned his name often. According to French 'for a number of years afterward the word 'geruppt' became an epithet among German physicists to describe questionable work'" Jooss. </p> <br /> <p>This author's presentation offprint is of extreme rarity and must be distinguished from other so-called 'offprints' of papers from the Berlin Sitzungsberichte many of which are commonly available on the market. The celebrated bookseller Ernst Weil 1919-1981 in the introduction to his Einstein bibliography wrote: "I have often been asked about the number of those offprints. It seems to be certain that there were few before 1914. They were given only to the author and mostly 'Überreicht vom Verfasser' Presented by the Author is printed on the wrapper. Later on I have no doubt many more offprints were made and also sold as such especially by the Berlin Academy." If the term 'offprint' means as we believe it should a separate printing of a journal article given only to the author for distribution to colleagues then 'offprints' were not commercially available. Although there is certainly some truth in Weil's remark in our view it requires clarification and explanation.</p> <br /> <p>Until about 1916 most of Einstein's papers were published in Annalen der Physik; from 1916 until he left Germany for the United States in 1933 most were published in the Berlin Sitzungsberichte. The Sitzungsberichte differed from other journals in which Einstein published in that it made separate printings of its papers commercially available. These separate printings have 'Sonderabdruck' printed on the front wrapper the usual German term for offprint but they are not offprints according to our definition. They were available to anyone; indeed a price list of these 'trade offprints' is printed on the rear wrapper. True author's presentation offprints can be distinguished from these trade separates by the presence of 'Überreicht vom Verfasser' on the front wrapper.</p> <br /> <p>In the period 1916 to 1919 or 1920 the Sitzungsberichte trade separates are themselves rare. After 1919 or 1920 however the trade separates become much more common although the author's presentation offprints are still very rare. The reason for this change is that it was only in 1919 that Einstein became famous among the general public.</p> <br /> <p>It might seem obvious that Einstein's fame dates from 1905 his 'annus mirabilis' in which he published his epoch-making papers on special relativity and the light quantum. However these works did not make him immediately well known even in the physics community - many physicists did not understand or accept his work and it was two or three years before his genius was fully accepted even by his colleagues. Einstein did not secure an academic position until 1908. Among the general public Einstein became well known only in late 1919 following the success of Eddington's expedition to observe the bending of light by the Sun which confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. This was front-page news and made Einstein universally famous. See Chapter 16 'The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein' in Pais Subtle is the Lord for an account of these events. Before 1919 the trade separates of Einstein's papers would probably only have been purchased by professional physicists; after 1919 everyone wanted a memento of the famous Dr. Einstein whether or not they understood anything of theoretical physics and the trade separates of his papers were printed and sold in far greater numbers than before to meet the demand. It is telling that when these post-1919 trade separates appear on the market they are often in mint condition - they were never read simply because their owners were unable to understand them.</p> <br /> <p>BRL 160; Weil 153. Born 'Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 1868-1951' Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 1952 pp. 275-296. French 'The strange case of Emil Rupp' Physics in Perspective 1 1999 pp. 3-21. Joosse 'December 1934: Emil Rupp's research which fooled even Einstein is exposed as fraud' APS News Nov. 14 2023. Van Dongen 'Communicating the Heisenberg uncertainty relations: Niels Bohr complementarity and the Einstein-Rupp experiments' Scientia Danica. Series M Mathematica et physica 1: One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom Proceedings 2015 pp. 310-343.</p> <br/> <br/> 8vo 252 x 180 mm pp. 334-340; 341-351. Original printed wrappers portion of ink postmark stamp on lower cover just into text of publisher's advertisements light vertical crease for posting. Akademie der Wissenschaften unknown
1926043114London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Viii 124 Pp. Green Cloth White Spine Lettering. First Printing In Secondary Binding With White Lettering The First Binding Was Lettered In Gilt. Book Used But Still Fine No Rubbing Lettering Complete And Entirely Strong. Spanish Owner's Name With His 1948 Receipt From H. K. Lewin For The Book Laid In Loosely. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> Methuen & Co. hardcover
193110574New York: The Macmillan Company 1931. First American Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good. First American edition of About Zionism: Speeches and Letters by Professor Albert Einstein in scarce dust jacket. Twelvemo 8 9-94pp. Green cloth title stamped in gilt on spine. Published "February 1931" statement on copyright page. Uncut outer edge clean text throughout. Sound binding. In the scarce publisher's dust jacket price clipped retail price of $1.50 stamped on front flap chipping and some loss along top edge shelf wear to both covers a stable but well-worn example. Boni Russ & Laurence 306 An exceptionally scarce example of this work in the publisher's original dust jacket. First published in London in 1930 by The Soncino Press this work was translated into English by Leon Simon. The Macmillan Company unknown books
190632820369<p>Contemporary half dark green roan. Rubbed some chipping separation at upper joint. Library markings.</p><p>FIRST EDITION of "On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption" pp. 199-206. This classic in the history of physics is Einstein's second paper on the photoelectric effect. Einstein reconciles his and Planck's independent derivations of the blackbody formula E=hν. Planck's derivation of this formula ascribed it to a restriction on the energy changes possible when radiation is produced or absorbed by matter which implied no restriction on the energies of either matter or radiation. Einstein's 1905 derivation ascribed it to a restriction on the energy of radiation alone but in this paper he proposes the modern idea that the energies of both matter and radiation are quantized which led to his work on quantum specific heats.</p><p>and</p><p>FIRST EDITION of "The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy" pp. 627-633. In this "ingenious thought experiment involving energy transport in a hollow cylinder Einstein returned to the relationship between inertial mass and energy giving more general arguments for their complete equivalence" Calaprice The Einstein Almanac. This is the first statement that the conservation of mass is a special case of the conservation of energy.</p><br /> Annalen der Physik
193846954Baltimore, 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.også on a generalization...... pais p. 496
