Albert Einstein Einsteins Transitional Paper (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. EINSTEIN, Albert. "Über das Relativitätsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen" in "Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Elektronik". Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1908, volume 4, (iv), 486pp, 2 plates, with the Einstein on pp 411-462. Offered with: EINSTEIN, "Berichtigungen Über das Relativitätsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen" in "Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Elektronik", Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1908, volume 5, (iv), 576 pp, with the Einstein note on pp 98-99.[++] [++] **Einstein's transitional paper from the special to the general theory of relativity the introduction of General Relativity and the derivation of the equivalence principle** [++} In two uniformly bound volumes of the period, with cloth spines and tips and marbled boards. Provenance: Chemistry Lab and Library of the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart, with their three rubber stamps on the title page of each volume. I can find no other marks in the volumes. Very fresh and crisp and clean copies. VG, solid copies.[++] "In 1907, Einstein first conceived of the equivalence between gravity and acceleration. His insight was that it was not possible to distinguish between a body in a stationary gravitational field and a body that is in no gravitational field but is uniformly accelerating. Therefore, he proposed that the physics of gravity and acceleration must be the same. This insight formed the first conceptual foundation for his general theory of relativity. Einstein first published this concept in early 1907 [in the paper offered here].This paper also extended the equation E=mc^2 to apply to gravitational mass as well as inertial mass."--David Wenner, History of Physics, the Wenner Collection. [++]"Through the interpretation of the transformations as elements of a space-time symmetry group corresponding to the new kinematics, the special theory of relativity (as it later came to be called) provided physicists with a powerful guide in the search for new dynamical theories of fields and particles and gradually led to a deeper appreciation of the role of symmetry criteria in physics. The special theory of relativity also provided philosophers with abundant material for reflection on the new views of space and time. The special theory, like Newtonian mechanics, still assigns a privileged status to the class of inertial frames of reference. The attempt to generalize the theory to include gravitation led Einstein to formulate the equivalence principle in 1907 [the paper offered here]. This was the first step in his search for a new theory of gravitation denying a privileged role to intertial frames, a theory that is now known as the general theory of relativity"--John Stachel, "Einstein's Miraculous Year," p. 101. [++] "Einstein divided his work on general relativity into three key steps. The first step, in 1907 [in the paper offered here], was his basic idea for the general theory of relativity . He was referring to his formulation of the equivalence principle the inability to uniquely separate gravitation and inertia."--Complete DSB online [++] "In this work [this paper] Einstein published the principle of equivalence for uniformly accelerated mechanical systems on which he eventually built the general theory of relativity. He extended the principle to electromagnetic phenomena, gave the correct expression for the red shift and noted that this extension also leads to a bending of light which passes a massive body. He believed that this last effect was too small to be detectable. Later Einstein wrote that when he was working on this paper, "There occurred to me the happiest thought of my life, in the following form. The gravitational field has only a relative existence in a way similar to the electric field generated by magnetoelectric induction. Because for an observer falling freely from the roof of a house there exists -at least in his immediate surroundings-no gravitational field."--Christie's, 3 October 2002.