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Pierre Costabel, ‘Jean­Baptiste Du Hamel,’ DSB 4:221–222; Martin Fichman,
‘Pierre Petit,’ DSB 10:546–7; J. MacLean, ‘De kleurentheorie van de Aristotlianen
en de opvattingen van De la Chambre, Duhamel, en Vossius in de periode
1640–1670’, Scientiarum Historia 10 (1968) 208–221.
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)
and Marcel GROSSMANN (1878–1936)
Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer
Theorie der Gravitation. I. Physikalischer Teil von Albert Einstein.
II. Mathematischer Teil von Marcel Grossmann.
Leipzig and Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner [verso of title]
Separatabdruck aus Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, Band 62, 1913.
8vo, pp. 38.
243 x 163mm. Light toning.
Binding: Contemporary boards with cloth spine, original printed wrappers
(with advertisements) mounted on upper and lower boards. Minor
rubbing.
Provenance: Small owners stamp of Julius Ott on titlepage.
OVprint from Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik 62 (1913), 225–244.
Weil 58a; Norman 693.
‘One of the turning­points in the development of relativity theory. Einstein
had realized that he could proceed no further without expert mathematical
help, and called upon his friend Marcel Grossmann to supply it.’ (Norman
Catalogue.)
‘This step was immense in its implications: (a) it forced the abandonment
of the Newtonian notion that the gravitational Weld could be characterized
by one scalar function, the gravitational potential; (b) it forced on Einstein
the notion that gravitation is explicitly related to the geometrical structure of
space­time.’ (Nandor L. Balazs, DSB 4:327a.)
‘These oVprints are printed from the same setting as the text, but often
with a new pagination. I have often been asked about the number of these
oV prints. It seems to be certain that there were few before 1914.’ (Ernst
Weil, quoted in Zeitlin & ver Brugge Catalogue 214 (1966), no. 84, possibly
a private communication).
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)
Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie.
Berlin: Verlag der Akademie er Wissenschaften in kommission bei Walter de
Gruyter u. co. [on p. 8:] gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei, 1929.
8vo, pp. 8.
257 x 180mm. Slightly creased.