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Lot 33

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.
Kritisches zu einer von Hrn. De Sitter gegebenen Losung der Gravitationsgleichungen. [Offprint from]: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, XII. Berlin, 1918. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1918.

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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Kritisches zu einer von Hrn. De Sitter gegebenen Losung der Gravitationsgleichungen. [Offprint from]: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, XII. Berlin, 1918. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1918.
8vo (257 x 179 mm). Publisher's printed orange wrappers.
Provenance: H.A. Einstein (1904-1976, his stamp to upper wrapper, "54" in red ink and "7.III.18" in pencil to upper margin).

EINSTEIN DEFINES THE NATURE OF A SPACE-TIME SINGULARITY, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE, HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN'S COPY. In this early paper on the cosmological implications of General Relativity, Einstein criticizes De Sitter's hypothesis about the structure of the cosmic gravitational field and provides the first proper definition of a space-time singularity. Despite Einstein's critique, the De Sitter model was the dominant cosmological model until the 1930s—at which time Einstein and de Sitter together proposed a "just right" cosmological model. The great cosmological debate between Einstein and De Sitter marks the beginning of the modern scientific understanding of the origins of the universe. Einstein's Author Presentation Offprints of this period (printed "Uberreicht vom Verfasser") are very rare and represent the true meaning of offprint as a separate printing of an article given to the author for collegial distribution, as opposed to the more common trade "offprints" of the works.

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