Meaning Relativity: Signed (5 results)
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Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.HGG Books
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Hardcover. First Edition. First edition with full number line. Signed by both authors on title page. Inscription to prior owner on blank front space.Clean pages, signatures and inscription in pen crisp, binding tight, cloth boards and dust jacket crisp, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards Clean pages, signatures and insc I…llustrated dust jacket over clo. Signed.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The history and meaning of Einstein's, "The Foundation of General Relativity." Book jacket has slight tear on the top right. Book is inscribed to Diana by both authors. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London 1956
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Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSixth edition of Einstein's clear and systematic exposition of the theory of relativity, with the ownership stamp on the front and rear pastedowns, "Stephen Hawking Newton Institute University of Cambridge Cambridge, England." Octavo, original cloth. Translated By Edwin Plimpton Adams and Ernest G. Straus. Fine in a very good du…st jacket. An exceptional association. In the book, Einstein outlines both the special and general theories of relativity, explaining their mathematical foundations and physical implications, particularly regarding the nature of space, time, and gravitation. Designed for readers with a background in physics and mathematics, the text serves as both a summary of Einsteinâs groundbreaking contributions and an accessible guide to the conceptual shifts his theories introduced to modern science. The work remains a significant historical and intellectual document, illustrating Einsteinâs effort to communicate complex scientific ideas with clarity and precision.
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London 1924
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Second Edition. Second Edition. Signed by Author. SIGNED Copy. The uncommon second UK edition. 8vo., 123pp. A near fine copy in a very good or better dustwrapper showing a few small chips at the extremities. Nicely signed by Einstein on the front free endpaper in blue fountain pen in full: "Albert Einstein. 1949". Neat prize ins…cription dated 1942, Liverpool University just above the signature. Very rarely seen signed. Weil 124a for the 1st edition - no mention of the 1924 2nd. Custom slipcase in fine condition. Signed by Author.
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Seller: The Raab Collection, Ardmore, PA, U.S.A.The Raab Collection
Contact seller4-star sellerThe fullest summation we have seen by Einstein comparing relativity to Newtonian concepts of space and timeImmanuel Kant took both Euclidean geometry and the Newtonian laws of motion to be synthetic a priori principles, which, from Kant?s point of view, function as necessary presuppositions for applying our fundamental concepts…of space, time, matter, and motion to our sensible experience of the natural world, meaning they are fixed necessary conditions. This idea rested on the absolute nature of space and time, the work of Newton, and the relationship between geometry and physics.In 1905, while a young patent clerk and physicist in Bern, Switzerland, Albert Einstein obtained his doctorate and published a paper that explained his newly developed Special Theory of Relativity. This unlocked many mysteries of the universe, and introduced the world to "e=mc2," equating mass and the speed of light with energy. It established that time and space are not fixed, and in fact change to maintain a constant speed of light regardless of the relative motions of sources and observers. Just 10 years later, in 1915, Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which described the universe as a four-dimensional continuum (with time added as the fourth dimension), where gravitational effects are explained by the warping of space-time. In this theory, Einstein incorporated gravity as a geometric property of space-time.The impact of Einstein's work between 1905 and 1915 challenged many principles of physics that had been accepted for centuries. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for his work. Time Magazine named him the Person of the Century for the 20th century for his discoveries in relativity and space-time. Einstein is the most important scientist since Isaac Newton, and probably the most famous in history.Space and time were considered relativistic, more subjective, and not the fixed a priori notions that had long permeated the mathematical and scientific worlds.Max Fischler was a California scientist who was interested in the implications of this distinction: were space and time now to be studied together in this context only or were the nature of space and the nature of time different?In special relativity, what appears simultaneous to one person, might not to another - they are relative. You cannot separate space and time; they occur subjectively and semi-dependently, but are not tied to the content of that space.With General Relativity, space-time remains but matter warps it. It's a field, like the sheet of a trampoline but reacts to matter. One needs all four dimensions of space-time and without them, the others don't exist. You need matter for space.On September 5, 1954, he wrote to Einstein: ".Can anything in your theory of Relativity be said to throw new light on the nature of space and time themselves? Or must we rest satisfied with the purely new logical treatment of these conceptions? In other words, does the new view of space and time as space-time carry any new meaning ontologically beyond the purely mathematical and logical relationship between the two. Or to put it differently: When Minkowski, in his famous words said, 'Space by itself and time by itself must not sink into the mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two can preserve an independent existence,' did he not attach some new, real meaning to the 'spacetime' which the old independent notions of space and time could not convey? If so in what does this new meaning consist."Four days later, Einstein replied in this letter:Typed letter signed, in German, on his personal blind embossed letterhead, Princeton, September 9, 1954, to Max Fishler. "The expression cited in the second paragraph only signifies the wish for logical clarity in the formal expressions. De facto the justification for concepts lies in their ability to comprehend the empirically given."In classical mechanics, space and time were completed existences, which had to be presupposed as real [a pri.
