Item #3393 The Evolution of Physics. Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld.

The Evolution of Physics

Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards. 5" x 7.5", pp. vi, [3] 4-319. This book was first intended as an opportunity for Einstein to financially aid his friend, Infeld. Though it soon became a joy for him to share physics in near layman's words as if the reader were seated before him in a classroom. Very good with a few edge smudges, previousl bookseller inventory number in pencil, otherwise a clean, firm edition / G+ protected by mylar which has been taped to inside flaps, thumb print size chip at top edge, tide mark on spine and some edgewear. Item #3393

"The theory of relativity deduces, from its fundamental assumption, an answer again of a quantitative character: all energy resists change of motion; all energy behaves like matter..." (p 207).

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