ANOTHER PROPERTY
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?" In: Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Bd. 18, 1905. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905.
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?" In: Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Bd. 18, 1905. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905.
8o. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION, journal issue. "A few months after first publishing the theory of relativity, Einstein discovered something that particularly intrigued him; the relation between inertial mass and energy. He wrote to Conrad Habicht during the summer of 1905: 'One more consequence of the paper on electrodynamics has also occurred to me. The principle of relativity, in conjunction with Maxwell's equations, requires that mass be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light carries mass with it. A noticeable decrease of mass should occur in the case of radium. The argument is amusing and seductive, but for all I know the Lord might be laughing over it and leading me around by the nose.'" (Stachel, Einstein's Miraculous Year, 117-18). This is Einstein's first proof of the relation that would later be stated in the formula e = mc2. Weil 10.
8o. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION, journal issue. "A few months after first publishing the theory of relativity, Einstein discovered something that particularly intrigued him; the relation between inertial mass and energy. He wrote to Conrad Habicht during the summer of 1905: 'One more consequence of the paper on electrodynamics has also occurred to me. The principle of relativity, in conjunction with Maxwell's equations, requires that mass be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light carries mass with it. A noticeable decrease of mass should occur in the case of radium. The argument is amusing and seductive, but for all I know the Lord might be laughing over it and leading me around by the nose.'" (Stachel, Einstein's Miraculous Year, 117-18). This is Einstein's first proof of the relation that would later be stated in the formula e = mc2. Weil 10.