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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity]. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity]. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.
8vo. Original printed wrappers. Spine with paper repairs at head and foot, wrappers lightly tanned at spine and edges, some pencil annotations to front wrapper.
Provenance: Contemporary ink ownership inscription of Karl Malmkvist to front wrapper.
FIRST EDITION, MONOGRAPH ISSUE OF EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, with printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" to verso of title, and "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" to back wrapper. Though the present work is often presented as a separately printed edition, it is in fact an offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 49, 1916 (and is so identified on the verso of the title "Sonderdruck aus den 'Annalen der Physik' Band 49, 1916"). The text has been reimposed, and the pagination and page-breaks are different from those in the journal though the setting appears to be the same. This monograph issue benefits from the addition of a new title page, table of contents, and introduction by Einstein. "Whereas Special Relativity had brought under one set of laws the electromagnetic world of Maxwell and Newtonian mechanics as far as they applied to bodies in uniform relative motion, the General Theory did the same thing for bodies with the accelerated relative motion epitomized in the acceleration of gravity. But first it had been necessary for Einstein to develop the true nature of gravity from his principle of equivalence ... Basically, he proposed that gravity was a function of matter itself and that its effects were transmitted between contiguous portions of space-time ... Where matter exists, so does energy; the greater the mass of matter involved, the greater the effect of the energy which can be transmitted. In addition, gravity affected light ... exactly as it affected material particles. Thus the universe which Newton had seen, and for which he had constructed his apparently impeccable mechanical laws, was not the real universe ... Einstein's paper gave not only a corrected picture of the universe but also a fresh set of mathematical laws by which its details could be described" (R.W. Clark Einstein [New York, 1984] p 253). Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 696; PMM 408; Weil Checklist (1960), 80a.
8vo. Original printed wrappers. Spine with paper repairs at head and foot, wrappers lightly tanned at spine and edges, some pencil annotations to front wrapper.
Provenance: Contemporary ink ownership inscription of Karl Malmkvist to front wrapper.
FIRST EDITION, MONOGRAPH ISSUE OF EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, with printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" to verso of title, and "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" to back wrapper. Though the present work is often presented as a separately printed edition, it is in fact an offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 49, 1916 (and is so identified on the verso of the title "Sonderdruck aus den 'Annalen der Physik' Band 49, 1916"). The text has been reimposed, and the pagination and page-breaks are different from those in the journal though the setting appears to be the same. This monograph issue benefits from the addition of a new title page, table of contents, and introduction by Einstein. "Whereas Special Relativity had brought under one set of laws the electromagnetic world of Maxwell and Newtonian mechanics as far as they applied to bodies in uniform relative motion, the General Theory did the same thing for bodies with the accelerated relative motion epitomized in the acceleration of gravity. But first it had been necessary for Einstein to develop the true nature of gravity from his principle of equivalence ... Basically, he proposed that gravity was a function of matter itself and that its effects were transmitted between contiguous portions of space-time ... Where matter exists, so does energy; the greater the mass of matter involved, the greater the effect of the energy which can be transmitted. In addition, gravity affected light ... exactly as it affected material particles. Thus the universe which Newton had seen, and for which he had constructed his apparently impeccable mechanical laws, was not the real universe ... Einstein's paper gave not only a corrected picture of the universe but also a fresh set of mathematical laws by which its details could be described" (R.W. Clark Einstein [New York, 1984] p 253). Grolier/Horblit 26c; Norman 696; PMM 408; Weil Checklist (1960), 80a.