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1994S11423New York:: Warner Books 1994. 1994. Small 8vo. 179 pp. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 0446670111 Warner Books, (1994). 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
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
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
199433034Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994. Clarendon Press 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
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
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
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
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
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
193037421Berlin: Akad. der Wiss 1930. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Weil 169. Akad. der Wiss unknown books
1916140940031Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth 1916. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Annalen der Physik Band 48 No. 7. total pp. 769-880 with Einstein's paper "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" on pp. 769-822. "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" to foot of pp. 880. Finely bound without wraps opens directly to p. 769 in marbled boards with brown leather spine lettered in gilt with contents lightly toned else Fine. Also contains papers by Otto Stern W. Wein R. Hirsch and H. Lussem. Text in German. The first printing of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and a continuation of his ideas of first set forth in a 1905 paper on special relativity. General relativity refines Newton's laws of gravity describing it as a geometric property of space and time applying it to the universe. Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth unknown books
19142124Berlin: 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
1941433111941. 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
2018185442California: Triton Museum of Art/ Grand Central Press 2018. Hardcover. VG/VG. Color illustrated boards with black lettering on a clear dust jacket; 287 pp; profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition David Einstein : a 50-year retrospective 1968-2018 presented by Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara California from February 17 through April 22 2018. Contents include: Foreword -- Introduction : letting go and the possibilities of abstract expressionism -- David Einstein : a narrative chronology / biography by Mark B. Johnson -- Transcendent abstractions : color echoes and other works / Preston Metcalf -- Form color and process : the evolution of a mark maker / Judith Cook -- A mark maker in life and art : the early years / Roy Kotynek and John Cohassey -- The spiritual journey of a master mark maker / Stephanie Learmonth -- Gesture as language / Sienna Brown -- Reflecting on light echo #21-color veil / Scott A. Shields -- Prelude to the desert : the earth & sky series / Amy B. Scott -- Color veils and the shaping of David Einstein's painting / Ori Z. Soltes -- Selected works : 1968-2016. Triton Museum of Art/ Grand Central Press hardcover books
1913WRCLIT84021Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1913. 289pp. Printed green cloth. Ink name and bookplate on pastedown front free endsheet brittle and detached cloth a bit faded and lightly soiled but a very good copy. First edition in this format of three essays by Lorentz two by Einstein and one by Minkowski with a foreword by Otto Blumenthal. Einstein's two essays "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper" and "Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Enerheinhalt abhangig" were first published in 1905 in ANNALEN DER PHYSIK the first being Einstein's first publication on special relativity. Minkowski's essay "Raum und Zeit" was first published in 1909 see PMM 401. B.G. Teubner hardcover books
19312240New York: Covici Friede 1931. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1931 1st edition. Clean and VG in its original blue cloth. 12mo 109 pgs. Light offsetting at the gutters tasteful former owner bookplate to front pastedown. <br/><br/> Covici, Friede hardcover books
1931207020New York: Covici-Friede 1931. First edition. Jacket worn and with some loss tape repair on spine. 8vo. Cloth; dust jacklet. Contains Einstein's famous essay on science and religion and other essays on Judaism pacifism and other related topics. <br/><br/> Covici-Friede hardcover books
1918134657Saint Louis: Laryngoscope Press 1918. Hardcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus perforation stamp on title page pg 1 of the reprint and all plates. binding cracked in center but still holding. wear to exterior with cloth fraying at corners and spine ends. bumped corners. Red cloth. 128 pp bw plates and appendix. Number 231 of 300 copies. Reprint of the 1883 "Fagan's Collectors' Marks" with 668 marks plus an appendix of 205 additional marks. Of interest to collectors and art historians interested in European collectors collections and provenance. Laryngoscope Press hardcover books
19781288091Sauk City: Arkham House 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; green illustrated spine black text; jacket has little to no wear unclipped and has protective mylar cover; boards strong and clean; textblock have light age toning; interior pages clean; pp 202. shelve front counter. 1288091. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Arkham House hardcover books
1923433151923. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1923. 359-364pp. 254 x 184 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. First Edition offprint issue. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 137. unknown books
1923374081923. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Weil 137. unknown books
1911432921911. <p>Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen." Offprint from Annalen der Physik 34 1911. 591-592pp. 224 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers a little chipped splint in lower spine. Light toning but very good.</p> <p>First Edition Offprint Issue. Einstein's correction to his formula for the viscosity coefficient = 1 a key equation in his 1905 doctoral thesis in which he had presented a new theoretical method for determining molecular radii and Avogadro's number. In 1910 Jacques Bacelin a pupil of French physicist Jean-Baptiste Perrin obtained experimental results indicating a possible error in Einstein's formula. "That prompted Einstein after an unsuccessful attempt to find an error to ask his student and collaborator Ludwig Hopf to check his calculations and arguments . . . Hopf did find an error in the dissertation namely in the derivatives of some velocity components and obtained for a corrected coefficient 2.5 . . .In early 1911 Einstein submitted his correction for publication and recalculated Avogadro's number. He obtained a value of 6.56 x 1023 per mole a value that is close to those derived from kinetic theory and Planck's black-body radiation theory" Duplantier pp. 216-217. Duplantier "Brownian motion ‘diverse and undulating'" in Einstein 1905-2005: Poincaré Seminar 2005 pp. 201-293. Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 92. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 41.</p> . unknown books
1907432971907. <p>Einstein Albert 1879-1955. Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung etc." Offprint from Annalen der Physik 22 1907. Single sheet p. 800. Unbound as issued. 223 x 145 mm. Lower corner lightly creased but very good.</p> <p>First Edition Rare Offprint Issue. Einstein's important correction to his paper on specific heats "Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme" 1907; see Weil 15 which "made clear for the first time that quantum concepts have a far more general applicability" Pais p. 394. "Einstein initially believed that his oscillating lattice points in a three-dimensional crystal lattice were electrically charged ions. A few months later he published a correction to his paper in which he observed that this was an unnecessary assumption . . . Einstein's correction freed the quantum rules in passing one might say from any specific dependence on electromagnetism" Pais p. 396. Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 394-396. Weil 15n.</p> . unknown books
