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EINSTEIN, Albert. Le principe de relativité et ses conséquences dans la physique moderne. Offprint from: Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles, Quatrième période, 29 (Jan/Feb 1910). Geneva: Bureau des Archives, 1910.
8o. Original green printed wrappers, mounted title label on front wrapper (spine with residual glue from disbinding); cloth folding case. Provenance: Ernst Mach (1838-1916), physicist (inscription from the author on front wrapper and most likely his marginal marks in red pencil).
PRESENTATION COPY TO ERNST MACH
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN TO MACH: "Mit ehrerbietigen Gruss." Einstein's detailed survey of the relativity theory, which contains in his words, "a broad exposé of the [theory's] epistemological foundations" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, p. 189).
A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Einstein presented this copy to Mach, whose Die Mechanik in Ihrer Entwicklung (1883) had a profound influence on Einstein's thought since his days as a student. Mach's work contained his famous critique of Newton's concepts of absolute space and time, which Einstein saw as a precursor of relativity theory. BRL 32; Pais, pp. 187-90, 282-83.37375; Weil 31.
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PRESENTATION COPY TO ERNST MACH
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN TO MACH: "Mit ehrerbietigen Gruss." Einstein's detailed survey of the relativity theory, which contains in his words, "a broad exposé of the [theory's] epistemological foundations" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, p. 189).
A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Einstein presented this copy to Mach, whose Die Mechanik in Ihrer Entwicklung (1883) had a profound influence on Einstein's thought since his days as a student. Mach's work contained his famous critique of Newton's concepts of absolute space and time, which Einstein saw as a precursor of relativity theory. BRL 32; Pais, pp. 187-90, 282-83.37375; Weil 31.