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Fragments of Olympic Gossip: autograph poem
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
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Fragments of Olympic Gossip: autograph poem
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Autograph poem 'Fragments of Olympian Gossip' signed ('Nikola Tesla / Novice') in the form of a letter to 'my Friend and Incomparable Poet / George Sylvester Viereck', New York, 31 December 1934
46 lines on four pages, 172 x 136mm, on a bifolium, on paper with Tesla's printed 'NT' monogram.
A humorous poem on the scientific geniuses of history, linking Archimedes, Spinoza, Fermat, Newton, Einstein, Kelvin ... and Tesla himself.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Autograph poem 'Fragments of Olympian Gossip' signed ('Nikola Tesla / Novice') in the form of a letter to 'my Friend and Incomparable Poet / George Sylvester Viereck', New York, 31 December 1934
46 lines on four pages, 172 x 136mm, on a bifolium, on paper with Tesla's printed 'NT' monogram.
A humorous poem on the scientific geniuses of history, linking Archimedes, Spinoza, Fermat, Newton, Einstein, Kelvin ... and Tesla himself.
Provenance
Swann Galleries, New York, 5 February 1998, lot 234.
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Thais Hitchins
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