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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

Lot 147
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Lot 147 | EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)



Collection of 11 important papers and offprints from Annalen der Physik, Sitzungsberichte der Koniglichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and other publications, relating to Einstein’s early work and his General Theory of Relativity.

'Zur allgemeinen molekularen Theorie der Wärme'. In: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 14, pp.354-362. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1904. Octavo (212 x 131mm). (Vol. without half-title.) Blue library cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (stamps). First journal edition of Einstein’s fifth published paper. BRL 5; Weil 5.



– and L. HOPF. 'Über einen Satz der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung in der Stralungstheorie'. In: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 33, pp.1096-1104. [In the same vol. with:] – 'Statistische Untersuchung der Bewegung eines Resonators in einem Strahlungsfeld' pp.1105-1115. [And:] – 'Theorie der Opaleszenz von homogenen Flüssigkeiten und Flüssigkeitsgemischen in der Nähe des kritischen Zustandes' pp.1275-1298. Half-title. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1904. Octavo (207 x 140mm). Black library quarter cloth over boards, printed paper spine labels (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Kantons-Bibliothek, Graubünden, Chur (library stamp). These three papers not in BRL or Weil.



– 'Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. ' in Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 49, pp. 769-822. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Octavo (215 x 141mm). Half-title. Green library half cloth (extremities rubbed, joints cracking, spine slightly sunned). Provenance: II. Physikalisches Institut Universität, Vienna (stamps). First edition, journal issue, of Einstein's fundamental statement of the general theory of relativity. BRL 78; Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 695; PMM 408; Weil *80.



FREUNDLICH, Erwin (1885-1964). Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1916. Octavo (220 x 143mm). Original printed wrappers. First edition, containing a foreword by Albert Einstein. Provenance: some underlining in red and blue crayon, some pencil marginalia including a couple of small diagrams. BRL 77.



EINSTEIN, Albert. 'Schallausbreitung in teilweise dissoziierten Gasen.‘ Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. XVIII, pp. 380-385. Berlin: 1920. Octavo (255 x 182mm). Original printed orange wrappers (fine copy). BRL 119; Weil 110.



– Äther und Relativitätstheorie. Rede gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 An Der Reichs=Universität zu Leiden. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. Octavo (220 x 142mm). 15pp. (Faintly creased.) Original buff printed wrappers (chipping to extremities, soiled and lightly creased). BRL 115; Weil 111.



– Geometrie und Erfahrung. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921.

Einstein’s view on the place of mathematics in physics. Lecturing to a commemorative session of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Einstein questioned whether human reasoning, even without direct experience, could lead to an understanding of the properties of real things merely through thought. Regarding the question of why mathematics should be so well adapted to describing the physical world, he concluded, 'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.' First appearing in the Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (from which there was also an author’s offprint in orange wrappers), this is the first separate trade edition; Weil 115.

Octavo (216 x 145mm). 20 pp. Original printed wrappers (faint even browning). Provenance: red biro and purple crayon annotations.



– 'Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien.’ Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. III, pp. 18-22. Berlin: 1922. Quarto (255 x 182mm). Original printed orange wrappers (fine copy). BRL 132; Weil 120.



– Vier Vorlesungen über Relativitätstheorie, gehalten im Mai 1921 an der Universität Princeton. Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg, 1922. Octavo (232 x 151mm). First edition, with four mathematical diagrams in the text, printed on light-grey paper (unopened). Original printed grey wrappers (lightly soiled). Weil 124.





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Artist:Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
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