First Book on Relativity, In Original Box

Das Relativitätsprinzip. [Sammlung naturwissenschaftlicher und mathematischer Monographien].

Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1911.

Price: $500.00


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First edition. Mit 14 in den Eingedruckten Abbildungen. x, 208, [34, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Book on Relativity, In Original Box. Original gray cloth, glassine dust jacket, in original printed gray board slipcase with paper label (very slightly scuffed), bookplate of Dr. Salpeter, Vienna bookseller's label, " Franz Leo & Comp." DSB VIII, 51.

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Laue won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914

"In the winter semester of1905-1906 Laue heard Planck's lecture at the Physical Colloquium on the special theory of relativity....
After initial reservations Laue became one of the firstadherents of the new theory and, as early as July 1907, presented a proof for it thathe drew, characteristically, from optics.... [This] important experimental proof..., along with the Michelson-Morley experiment and arguments from group theory,contributed to early acceptance of the theory.Having thus proved himself an expert in relativity theory,
in 1910 Laue wrote the first monograph on the subject" (DSB).