London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF BONDI ON GRAVITATIONAL BOUNCE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY. Hermann Bondi discusses the adiabatic collapse solutions of uniform density spheres under differing assumptions regarding density and central pressure. In discussing the problem of collapse and bounce, Bondi made two assumptions..... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1964. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT of “famous paper in classic astrophysics” (SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System). This paper by the Anglo-Austrian physicist Hermann Bondi studies whether redshifts could be of gravitational origin and “served as a theoretical guidepost for planetary and super-planetary relative motion calculation” (ibid)..... More
1962. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF AN IMPORTANT LECTURE DELIVERED BY BONDI AT OXFORD IN MAY OF 1962; this is the first printed version. The following represent just a few scientists whose work Bondi speaks of in his lecture: Michelson-Morley, Milne, Lorentz, Einstein, Maxwell, Wheeler, Feynman, Hogarth, Penrose..... More
BOUND FIRST EDITION OF HERMANN BONDI’S SEMINAL 1957 THOUGHT EXPERIMENT DEMONSTRATING THAT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES INDEED CARRY ENERGY, and furthermore that in order to carry energy (and momentum), gravitational waves must be nonlinear. Gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, were first predicted by Einstein’s 1916 general theory of..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1922. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIVE PAPERS THAT COMPRISE THE EINSTEIN-CARTAN THEORY OF GRAVIATION (ECT). “In theoretical physics, the Einstein-Cartan theory is a classical theory of gravitation similar to general relativity, but relaxing the assumption that the affine connection has vanishing antisymmetric part (torsion tensor), so..... More
Braunschweig: Druck und Vieweg. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (FULL VOLUME) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH EINSTEIN PROVIDES THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURE OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX FOR X-RAYS, here clearly demonstrating that phase contrast effects are significant. “Inspired by the presence of fringes at the edges of objects in..... More
Berlin: Slawo [Slovo], 1923. 1st Edition. 1922 FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF EINSTEIN’S FOUR LECTURES ON RELATIVITY DELIVERED AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN THE SPRING OF 1921 (Norman 697; Weil 124g). Bears the ownership stamp of the Russian/Jewish logician-philosopher Gregorius Itelson. Itelson lived in Berlin and was beaten to..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1919. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND EXTRACT OF ONE OF EINSTEIN'S MORE SIGNIFICANT MODIFICATIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, THIS SPECIFICALLY MARKING THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS UNIFIED FIELD THEORY - an approach he remained committed to for the remainder of his life. "The major interest of this paper..... More
Berlin: Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1927. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT IN FINE CONDITION OF EINSTEIN’S TWO-PART 1927 COMMENTARY ON KALUZA’S THEORY INVOLVING FIELD EQUATIONS IN FIVE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE. Weil 156. Boni 170. Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza “attempted to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with Maxwell’s theory of light by mixing..... More
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Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More
1925. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PICTORIAL WRAPPERS. Near fine condition. “This paper is an early example of a series of papers – which continued until his death – in which he explored, within the confines of general relativity, possible pathways in the direction of a unified field theory..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S LEIDEN LECTURE EXPLAINING AT LENGTH HIS THEORY OF THE ETHER ALONG WITH THOSE OF LORENTZ & MAXWELL. Very good + condition. “Einstein’s lecture at the University of Leiden on the occasion of his appointment as a visiting..... More
1920. 1st Edition. First edition in original wraps of Einstein’s review of a paper by Nobel Prize winner Walter Rudolf Hess entitled Theory of the Viscosity of Heterogeneous Systems. CONDITION: The journal was published in three sections. All three are here, all bright, clean, and in near fine condition. More
Paris: Paul Gaultier, de l'Institut, 1934. 1st Edition. Paul Gaultier, de l'Institut. 13 x 19.5cm. 258pp. Handsome illustrated cover. How I see the World. Judaism, Politics and Pacifism in Germany 1933. Translated from the German by Colonel Cros. Content: Comment je vois le Monde - Politique et Pacifisme - Allemagne..... More
New York: New York Times, 1931. 1st Edition. First edition of the October 19th, 1931 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379912; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. Einstein was asked to contribute..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF A 1921 LECTURE BY EINSTEIN ON THE "GEOMETRIZATION OF PHYSICS AND RELATIVITY AND THE RELATION OF MATHEMATICS TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography 4, 330). WEIL 115b. French translation by Maurice Solovince. In the same year in which he..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. First edition of the first French translation of the conference held on May 5th, 1920 at the University of Leiden. The translation was done by Maurice Solovine. Original paper wrappers. Cited in Weil and Boni catalogs. CONDITION & DETAILS: Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Imprimeurs-Editeurs. Complete..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Third Edition. FIRST PRINTED OF THE THIRD & EXTENDED EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL DUST JACKET of four lectures Einstein delivered at Princeton University in May 1921. The lectures, intended as further explanation of Einstein's famous theory of relativity and its developments, were titled 'Space and..... More
Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1953. First published in 1934, this volume was published in 1953 and is bound in handsome white linen boards gilt-lettered on the front board and at the spine. It is a collection gleaned from Einstein’s speeches and letters across a wide span of his career. The subjects..... More
New York: The New York Times, 1945. 1st Edition. First edition of the August 14th, 1945 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379910; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. Einstein’s article appears in..... More
New York: Hartsdale, 1947. The ownership signature, address of Buckminster Fuller appear on the front pastedown. Fuller also dated his entry (March 12th, 1948).This is his personal copy. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned inventor, philosopher, futurist architect, writer, social activist, designer, inventor, "intellectual outlaw," and author of more than thirty..... More
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920. 1st Edition. First edition bound extract of a paper, The Propagation of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases, “that is a bit off the beaten track for Einstein though its subject, fluids (liquids and gases) is one he dabbled in throughout his life” (Calaprice, Einstein Almanac)..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1925. First French edition of Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies) and 1st die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhangig? (Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?). Both 1905 treatises are "beyond compare and without precedent, one of the..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1906. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of two important 1906 Einstein papers. Einstein wrote two papers on the photoelectric effect, his revolutionary 1905 paper and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption," his continuation of it. In them, Einstein employed Planck's theory that luminous energy can be absorbed..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st French. FRENCH TRANSLATIONS of this “popular” exposition of the theory of relativity, The Theory of Restricted and General Relativity. Also included is Einstein's Relativity and the Space Problem. CONDITION & DETAILS: 1954. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1954. Ex-libris from The Franklin Institute with no spine markings. Rebacked with..... More