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MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). "Raum und Zeit", in: Jahresbericht der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume XVIII, pp.75-88. Leipzig: Teubner, 1909. 8° (234 x 149mm). Contemporary hardgrain half morocco (a trifle rubbed). Provenance: Charles L. Bouton, 1912 (signature on an endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of the 'Fourth dimension'. 'Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time itself is a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions', PMM 401.
FIRST EDITION of the 'Fourth dimension'. 'Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time itself is a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions', PMM 401.
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