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Photograph signed and inscribed by Einstein in the bottom margin: “To Mrs. R.M. Morison /Albert Einstein 45.”. More about Photograph Signed
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Photograph signed and inscribed by Einstein in the bottom margin: “To Mrs. R.M. Morison /Albert Einstein 45.”. More about Photograph Signed
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SCARCE FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S REPORT OF THE CONFIRMATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY; PRECEDING THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. More about Zuschriften an die Herausgeber: Prüfung der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [Communication to...
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FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Einstein’s discussion of ‘Mach’s Principle,’ what he identified as one of the three pillars of General Relativity. More about Prinzipielles zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [On the Foundations of the General Theory of...
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FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY of Einstein’s first paper on distant parallelism (also called absolute parallelism or teleparalleism), a mathematical concept he devised independently in order to construct a new geometrical framework in which to formulate a unified field theory. More about Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechterhaltung des Begriffes des Fernparallelismus
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FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT of Einstein’s paper outlining a thought experiment to suggest that the uncertainty principle requires the acknowledgement of an indeterminate past. More about Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics
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SCARCE FIRST EDITION of the account of Eötvös’s experiment establishing the equality of inertial and gravitational mass, AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY. More about Über die Anziehung der Erde auf Verschiedene Substanzen [On the Attraction by the Earth on...
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FIRST EDITIONS of all three parts of one of Bohr's most influential works: his groundbreaking paper on the "correspondence principle." More about On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra
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EXTREMELY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT AND FIRST JOURNAL APPEARANCE IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MAXWELL’S IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND ENDURING DEBATES IN PHYSICS. More about On Action at a Distance
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FIRST EDITION of the definitive collection of the work of Thomas Young, containing many original discoveries and the first full description of his famous double-slit experiment. Complete with 58 plates (two hand-colored). More about A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
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FIRST PRINTING IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Einstein’s important paper on the mass-energy equivalence, a crucial paper in the development of his most famous equation, with his first use of E=mc2 (although with different symbols). More about Über die vom Relativitätsprinzip geforderte Trägheit der Energie [On the Inertia of Energy...
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STUNNING GELATIN SILVER LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPH; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. More about Photograph
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY EINSTEIN on recto of frontispiece: “A. Einstein.”. More about The Drama of Albert Einstein: An Intimate Portrait of the Man Whose Work Has Changed Our World
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FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of two important papers on special relativity: Einstein’s discovery of the transverse Doppler effect as a test for special relativity and his response to Paul Ehrenfest on “the difficulty of applying Lorentz transformations to rigid bodies” (Pais). More about Über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Prüfung des Relativitätsprinzips [On the Possibility of a...
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FIRST EDITION of one of the most discussed and debated papers of modern physics. More about Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
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VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PRINT BY LOTTE JACOBI AND SIGNED BY JACOBI in pencil in the lower right corner. More about Photograph by Lotte Jacobi
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of Einstein’s breakthrough work on general relativity: the famous “Entwurf” paper. More about Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. [Outline...
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bohr’s statement of his ‘complementarity’ principle, the basis of what became known as the ‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics. (The paper was published essentially simultaneously in Danish, English, French and German.). More about The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory
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FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the theoretical basis of Einstein’s “Little Machine”. More about Über die Gültigkeitsgrenze des Satzes von thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die...
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FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a critical paper in the development of general relativity; of “considerable interest in the history of general relativity because it contains Einstein’s first treatment of a gravitation theory in which general covariance is strictly obeyed ... and particularly notable for its new derivation..... More about Die Nordströmsche Gravitationstheorie vom Standpunkt des absoluten Differentialkalküls...
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FIRST PRINTINGS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein’s great 1915 papers (both parts) delivered before the Prussian Academy on the development of general relativity. More about Zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (I&II). [On the General Theory of Relativity
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, of Einstein’s last published scientific paper, written in collaboration with Israeli mathematician Bruria Kaufman, who served as Einstein’s assistant at Princeton from 1950 until Einstein’s death on April 18, 1955. More about A new form of the general relativistic field equations
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE of Einstein and Pauli’s only joint paper. More about On the non-existence of regular stationary solutions of relativistic field equations
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of one of Einstein's major papers on the modification of general relativity and the beginning of his unified field theory. More about Spielen Gravitationsfelder im Aufbau der materiellen Elementarteilchen eine wesentliche Rolle?...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Minkowski’s explanation of the fourth dimension, a critical bridge between Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity. More about Raum und Zeit [Space and Time
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FIRST PRINTINGS of two of the most fundamental papers in modern physics: Thomas Young's evidence of the wave theory of light and the first statement of his interference principle and double-slit experiment, the most influential experiment in quantum theory. More about The Bakerian Lecture: On the theory of light and colours. WITH: An account of some cases of the...
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