THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Simon Bloom of Denver, Col.; Princeton, New Jersey, 26 May 1936. 1 page, 4to, 280 x 213 mm. (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.), on Einstein's personal stationery with embossed heading, with original unpostmarked envelope, in German.
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Simon Bloom of Denver, Col.; Princeton, New Jersey, 26 May 1936. 1 page, 4to, 280 x 213 mm. (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.), on Einstein's personal stationery with embossed heading, with original unpostmarked envelope, in German.
AN INCIDENT FROM EINSTEIN'S CHILDHOOD AND THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Bloom had apparently asked Einstein what formative influences in his early life had impelled him into theoretical science, and whether he had been aware of the work of the scientist Georg Friedrich Bernhard Rieman (1826-1866) whose ideas on geometry provided the foundations for the theory of relativity. Einstein replies, thoughtfully: "External events, which are capable in themselves of determining the direction of a person's thinking and acting, may take place in every life. In the case of most people such events remain without effect. In my life surely the amazing impression made upon me, by a little compass shown to me by my father when I was a small boy, certainly played a part.
"Of Rieman's works I didn't learn until a time when the fundamental principles of the general theory of relativity had already been for some time clear in their conception...."
AN INCIDENT FROM EINSTEIN'S CHILDHOOD AND THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Bloom had apparently asked Einstein what formative influences in his early life had impelled him into theoretical science, and whether he had been aware of the work of the scientist Georg Friedrich Bernhard Rieman (1826-1866) whose ideas on geometry provided the foundations for the theory of relativity. Einstein replies, thoughtfully: "External events, which are capable in themselves of determining the direction of a person's thinking and acting, may take place in every life. In the case of most people such events remain without effect. In my life surely the amazing impression made upon me, by a little compass shown to me by my father when I was a small boy, certainly played a part.
"Of Rieman's works I didn't learn until a time when the fundamental principles of the general theory of relativity had already been for some time clear in their conception...."