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193037421Berlin: Akad. der Wiss 1930. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Weil 169. Akad. der Wiss unknown books
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. Cove rubbed ex-library copy with markings front hinge internally cracked else good. unknown books
1922139418Paris: 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
1916432941916. <p>Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Ein einfaches Experiment zum Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme. Offprint from Verhandlung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 18 1916. 173-177pp. 230 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine copy.</p> <p>First Edition Offprint Issue. In 1915 Einstein and Dutch physicist Wander Johannes de Haas conducted gyromagnetic experiments leading to the discovery of the Einstein-de Haas effect which corresponds to the mechanical rotation induced in a ferromagnetic cylinder suspended inside a coil when an impulse of electric current is sent through the coil. Einstein was very enthusiastic about the experimental results stating that he and de Haas had "given firm proof of the existence of Ampère's molecular currents" quoted in Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 245-246. After his collaboration with de Haas ended Einstein published the present paper on the Einstein-de Haas effect proposing a new experimental method for determining gyromagnetism. The Einstein-de Haas effect is now known to reveal a relationship between magnetism angular momentum and electron spin; however this was not understood at the time as electron spin was not discovered until the 1920s. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 82.</p> . unknown books
1921433071921. Offprint from "Der Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften zu ihrem 10jährigen Jubiläum" Berlin: Julius Springer 1921. 50-52pp. 260 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers a little chipped. Very good. First separate edition. Title translation: A simple application of Newton's law of gravitation to globular clusters. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 117. unknown books
190638892Leipzig 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. <p>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.</p> <p>Einstein's biographer Abraham Pais wrote of Einstein's thesis as follows: </p> <p>"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.</p> <p>"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 . . . ." </p> <p>"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. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> . unknown books
193137425Berlin: Akad. Wiss 1931. <p>Einstein Albert 1879-1955 and Walther Mayer 1887-1948. 1 Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Electrizität. Offprint from Sitzungsberichten der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1931. 19pp. 2 Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Zweite Abhandlung. Offprint from Sitzungsberichten der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1932. 10pp. Together 2 offprints. 258 x 185 mm. Original printed wrappers no. 1 lightly creased vertically. Fine copies.</p> <p>First Editions Offprint Issues. Einstein made several attempts at a five-dimensional unified field theory including this two-part collaboration with mathematician Walther Mayer "in which a new unified field theory was proposed one based on a four-dimensional space-time continuum with a five-dimensional tangent space attached at each point" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 492. This two-part paper is included on Shields's list of Einstein's most significant papers; see Albert Einstein Philosopher-Scientist 1949 p. 758. Shields 251; 261. Weil 182; 185.</p> . Akad. Wiss unknown books
199433034Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994. Clarendon Press unknown books
192426006<p>"<i>I'm working a lot but not managing to come up with the real thing. Science is a difficult profession. Sometimes I'm glad that you chose a practical vocation where one doesn't have to search for four-leaf clovers.</i>"</p> <b>ALBERT EINSTEIN.</b>Autograph Letter Signed "<i>Papa</i>" to his son Hans Albert Einstein March 7 1924 Berlin Germany. In German. 1 p.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Complete Translation</b></p><p> <i>7.III.24</i></p><p><i>Dear Albert</i></p><p> <i>My research projects of the past few years are completely inappropriate for a popular lecture and then I generally dread public appearances of such a kind. That's why I unfortunately have to decline the talk this time too. The Fr 45000 I designated for the down payment of the house purchase; and I invested another Fr 45000 which is supposed to belong to you that is Mama. I hope you'll find a suitable little home.</i></p><p> <i>I'm probably going to be staying in Zurich for a bit on the trip back from Naples; on the trip there only briefly. There's no question of it being official; the main thing for me is to be with you for a while. I don't have much time because I'm supposed to go to Kiel in May.</i></p><p> <i>In any case I'm very happy about seeing you all again soon. I'm working a lot but not managing to come up with the real thing. Science is a difficult profession. Sometimes I'm glad that you chose a practical vocation where one doesn't have to search for four-leaf clovers.</i></p><p> <i>Looking forward to a happy reunion! Best regards to the three of you from your</i></p><p> <i>Papa.</i></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Einstein's Theory of Relativity published in 1915 describes gravity as a curved geometric property of spacetime. Though <i>E</i>=<i>mc</i>2 captures the theory for which he is most remembered he never won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Rather in 1922 he won for his 1905 explanation of the photoelectric effect.</p><p>In 1914 Albert and Mileva Marić-Einstein separated and she and their sons returned to Zurich. When they divorced in 1919 they agreed that any Nobel Prize money he might win would go to Mileva for the children. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.</p><p>In May 1924 two months after this letter Marić purchased a building in Zurich and moved into the third floor apartment. In 1930 she purchased two more buildings but when the worldwide economic crisis reached Switzerland many tenants could not afford their rent; she lost the two additional buildings to foreclosure in 1936. Einstein had invested the remaining prize money in America in Marić's name. He lost much of that due to the Great Depression but he ultimately paid Marić more than he received from the prize.</p><p>Einstein also mentions to his nineteen-year-old son his plans to travel to Naples in May. He would attend the fifth International Congress of Philosophy with his theory of relativity scheduled to be "an object of particular discussion." First organized in 1900 the Congress was a global meeting held every few years under the auspices of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. It was interrupted by both World Wars but reconvened in 1948 and has been held every five years since in locations throughout the world.</p><p>Einstein also planned to go to Kiel Germany to stay and work with Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe 1872-1931 a German art historian and inventor. Kaempfe pioneered gyro compasses for ships and submarines.</p><p>From the 1920s until his death in 1955 the most elusive clover for which Einstein searched was a unified field theory. Einstein tried to meld together general relativity and electromagnetism. This would describe a single field in which all forces are mediated and the properties of all particles could be deduced.</p><p><b>Albert Einstein</b> 1879-1955 was born in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg in the German Empire to non-observant Ashkenazi Jewish parents. In 1894 the family moved to Italy. Einstein graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zürich in 1900. In 1903 he married Mileva Marić 1875-1948 with whom he had two sons. In 1905 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Zürich. From 1908 to 1932 he taught at a series of universities in Switzerland the Austrian Empire and the German Empire. As a theoretical physicist he published ground-breaking papers as early as 1905 and developed the theory of relativity including the mass–energy equivalence formula <i>E</i>=<i>mc</i>2. Albert and Mileva divorced in 1919. That same year he married Elsa Löwenthal. In 1922 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the photoelectric effect. In January 1933 when Adolph Hitler came to power Einstein was visiting the U.S. and remained here In 1939 he signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that Germany could develop a nuclear bomb thus inspiring the "Manhattan project." He became a U.S. citizen in 1940. After the war he became known for efforts to further world peace. At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton N.J. from 1933 until his death in 1955 he worked to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics. Considered the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects of history Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers and over 150 non-scientific works.</p><p><b>Hans Albert Einstein</b> 1904-1973 was born in Bern Switzerland to Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. Hans followed both parents in studying at ETH the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich graduating with a degree in civil engineering in 1926. In 1927 he married Frieda Knecht and they had four children two of whom died very young. In 1936 Hans earned a doctor of technical science degree. At his father's advice he left Switzerland in 1938 to escape the Nazi threat. He settled in Greenville South Carolina and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture studying sediment transport. In 1943 he transferred to the California Institute of Technology and in 1947 he accepted a position teaching hydraulic engineering at the University of California Berkeley. He became a full professor and eventually professor emeritus winning several research awards and fellowships.</p> books
2003047275New York: George Braziller Publishers in Association with the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation 2003. Revised Edition. 174p. with full facsimile of the 1912 manuscript and English translation original stiff printed wrappers quarto format. George Braziller, Publishers in Association with the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation unknown books
200040663NY:: George Braziller. As New. 2000. Hardcover. 0807614173 . Black and white illustrations. A facsimile edition. As new in like slipcase. Still in original shrinkwrap. ; 192 pages . George Braziller, hardcover books
1994S11423New York:: Warner Books 1994. 1994. Small 8vo. 179 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0446670111 Warner Books, (1994). unknown books
2006S12505Sagamore Beach:: Science History Publications 2006. 2006. 8vo. xii 228 pp. Illus. bibliography appendix index. Black silver-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0-88135-283-7 ". . . In tandem with the revival of quantum skepticism in physics Elzinga's book helps us recover Einstein's story from the tendentious interpretation of it that has gone unchallenged far too long."—BJHS ". . . The great value of Einstein's Nobel Prize is its detailed analysis of relevant documents showing how the academy managed to give Einstein the prize despite his work on relativity. . . "—Isis. Science History Publications, 2006. hardcover books
192478904London: Methuen & Company 1924. First edition of this classic account of Born's analysis and interpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity. Octavo original cloth frontispiece of Einstein. Signed by Max Born on the verso of the frontispiece. Translated by Henry L. Brose. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are uncommon signed examples rare. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is a book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954 and was one of the world's great physicists: in this work he analyzes and interprets the theory of Einsteinian relativity. The result is undoubtedly the most lucid and insightful of all the books that have been written to explain the revolutionary theory that marked the end of the classical and the beginning of the modern era of physics. Born follows a quasi-historical method of presentation. The book begins with a review of the classical physics covering such topics as origins of space and time measurements geometric axioms Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy concepts of equilibrium and force laws of motion inertia mass momentum and energy Newtonian world system absolute space and absolute time gravitation celestial mechanics centrifugal forces and absolute space laws of optics the corpuscular and undulatory theories speed of light wave theory Doppler effect convection of light by matter electrodynamics including magnetic induction electromagnetic theory of light electromagnetic ether electromagnetic laws of moving bodies electromagnetic mass and the contraction hypothesis. Born then takes up his exposition of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity discussing the concept of simultaneity kinematics Einstein's mechanics and dynamics relativity of arbitrary motions the principle of equivalence the geometry of curved surfaces and the space-time continuum among other topics. Born then points out some predictions of the theory of relativity and its implications for cosmology and indicates what is being sought in the unified field theory. This work steers a middle course between vague popularizations and complex scientific presentations. This is a careful discussion of principles stated in thoroughly acceptable scientific form yet in a manner that makes it possible for the reader who has no scientific training to understand it. Only high school algebra has been used in explaining the nature of classical physics and relativity and simple experiments and diagrams are used to illustrate each step. The layman and the beginning student in physics will find this an immensely valuable and usable introduction to relativity. Methuen & Company hardcover books
191344851Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner 1913. 38pp. 254 x 170 mm. Original printed wrappers chipped. Library stamps ownership inscription. Very good. First separate edition. "After his first discussions with Grossmann Einstein had found the correct starting point for general relativity. The real work could now begin . . . The Einstein-Grossmann paper published in 1913 contains profound physical insight into the nature of measurement some correct general relativistic equations some faulty reasoning and clumsy notation" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 216. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 58. Teubner unknown books
191343305Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner 1913. 38pp. 254 x 170 mm. Original printed wrappers chipped. Library stamps. Very good. First separate edition. "After his first discussions with Grossmann Einstein had found the correct starting point for general relativity. The real work could now begin . . . The Einstein-Grossmann paper published in 1913 contains profound physical insight into the nature of measurement some correct general relativistic equations some faulty reasoning and clumsy notation" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 216. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 58. Teubner unknown books
19132064Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner 1913. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION COMMERCIAL OFFPRINT ISSUE of Einstein's breakthrough work on general relativity: the famous "Entwurf" paper. "In this book Einstein and Grossman investigated curved space and curved time as they relate to a theory of gravity. They presented virtually all the elements of the general theory of relativity with the exception of one striking omission: gravitational field equations that were not generally covariant. Einstein soon reconciled himself to this lack of general covariance through the 'hole argument' which sought to establish that generally covariant gravitational field equations would be physically uninteresting. Einstein did not adopt the gravitational field equations until late in 1915 in his final formulations of the general theory. Here Einstein contributed the physics and Grossman the mathematics" Calaprice The Einstein Almanac 40. Weil 59a. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik volume 62. Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner 1913. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. Pencil notation on title. Small chips at spine ends. An outstanding copy without any of the cover-foxing so common with this issue. Teubner unknown books
1951WB16897New York: Van Vechten Press 1951. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of a total edition of 350. Full blue morocco binding by Suzanne Schrag; housed in clamshell box also by Schrag. With dedicatory essays by John Berryman Herman Broch Albert Einstein Ben Shahn Thomas Mann and others. <br/><br/> Van Vechten Press hardcover books
16970EINSTEIN Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. New York: Henry Holt & Company 1921. First Edition third printing. 1921 on title page making it the second printing of this edition and the third overall. Publisher's original blue cloth no dust jacket. Octavo 168 pages. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory began as a short paper and was eventually published as a book written with the aim of giving "an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who from a general scientific and philosophical point of view are interested in the theory but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics."- from the Preface. It is divided into 3 parts the first dealing with special relativity the second dealing with general relativity and the third dealing with considerations on the universe as a whole. It is unique both for giving special insight into one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and for providing a remarkably concise explanation of relativity. In very good to near fine condition with only very slight mottling to cloth cover and very minor foxing to outer bottom page edges. Absolutely clean and tight inside. unknown books
1979BL1592Austin:: University of Texas Press 1979. 1979. Series: The Library Chronicle New Series no. 12. Thin 8vo. 107 pp. Printed wrappers. Four lectures by Loyd S. Swenson C.P. Snow Howard Stein Ilya Prigogine. University of Texas Press, 1979. unknown books
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
194144121NY: Oxford 1941. First Edition. 8vo pp. vii 288. Translated from the German by Cesar Saerchinger. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. A VG tight copy. Oxford unknown books
191667998EinsteinÃs Theory of Relativity in Original Wrappers EINSTEIN Albert. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativit‰tstheorie. Sonderdruck aus den Annalen der Physik Band 49 1916. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth 1916. First separate printing with significant additions and revisions to the edition printed in the Annalen der Physik. With printerÃs imprint ìDruck von Metzger & Witting in Leipzigî on the verso of the title and the shorter imprint ìMetzger & Witting Leipzigî on the back wrapper. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm. 64 pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Some light browning around the edges of the wrappers. Overall an excellent copy with none of the spine erosion or soiling usually found with this fragile item. ìThe authorized version of EinsteinÃs general theory of relativity. The theoryÃs impact upon twentieth-century science and thought can hardly be overstatedî Norman Library 695 describing the first printing. ìThis separate edition is printed on good strong paper the wrappers are of strong material too.and it is described now as ëthe original editionà of this classic paperî Weil. Grolier/Horblit 26c describing the first printing. Norman Library 696. Printing and the Mind of Man 408. Weil 80a. HBS 67998. $7500 Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth unknown books
35418NY: Bonanza. 8vo pp. 377. Based on Mein Weltbild edited by Carl Seellig and other sources. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. A nice copy in lightly scuffed dj. Bonanza unknown books
1985S4963New York:: Crown 1985. 1985. 203 x 137 mm. 8vo. vi 377 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. Crown, (1985). unknown books
