MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit . Offprint from Jahresberichte der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinung 18, 1909. Leipzig & Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8 o. Halftone portrait frontispiece, after a photograph by Emil Loges. Publisher's advertisments for other works by the author on last leaf. Text illustrations. Original buff printed wrappers (slightly discolored, small losses to spine). Provenance : Stockholm Hgskola (small stamp on recto of frontispiece). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION: the notion that enabled Einstein to expand his theory of relativity from its specific (1905) to its general form (1916). "Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that separation of time and space is a false conception; that time is itself a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions" (PMM). The work first appeared in Volume II (1909) of the Verhandlungen of the Deutscher Naturfoscher und Aerzte. The present offprint was commissioned as a tribute following the author's sudden and tragic death. PMM 401 (the journal article); Norman 1514. -- MINKOWSKI. Zwei Abhandlungen ber die Grundgleichungen der Elektrodynamik . Volume I of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1910. 8 o. 2 leaves of publishers advertisements bound in. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, minor losses to spine). Provenance : Bibliothque de la Nourylande Venette (stamps on title-page). Previously published in Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen (Math.-physik. Klasse) in 1907, this paper first introduced the concept of time as the fourth variable in the "space-time continuum". Norman 1513. -- LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928), Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) & MINKOWSKI. Das Relativittsprinzip . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1913. 8 o. Halftone frontispiece of portrait of Minkowski. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, tiny losses to spine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVITY PHYSICS, including Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Krper by Einstein and Raum und Zeit by Minkowski. Issued as Volume II of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien , edited by Otto Blumenthal. Norman 1390.
MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit . Offprint from Jahresberichte der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinung 18, 1909. Leipzig & Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1909. 8 o. Halftone portrait frontispiece, after a photograph by Emil Loges. Publisher's advertisments for other works by the author on last leaf. Text illustrations. Original buff printed wrappers (slightly discolored, small losses to spine). Provenance : Stockholm Hgskola (small stamp on recto of frontispiece). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION: the notion that enabled Einstein to expand his theory of relativity from its specific (1905) to its general form (1916). "Hitherto natural phenomena had been thought to occur in a space of three dimensions and to flow uniformly through time. Minkowski maintained that separation of time and space is a false conception; that time is itself a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions" (PMM). The work first appeared in Volume II (1909) of the Verhandlungen of the Deutscher Naturfoscher und Aerzte. The present offprint was commissioned as a tribute following the author's sudden and tragic death. PMM 401 (the journal article); Norman 1514. -- MINKOWSKI. Zwei Abhandlungen ber die Grundgleichungen der Elektrodynamik . Volume I of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1910. 8 o. 2 leaves of publishers advertisements bound in. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, minor losses to spine). Provenance : Bibliothque de la Nourylande Venette (stamps on title-page). Previously published in Nachrichten der K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen (Math.-physik. Klasse) in 1907, this paper first introduced the concept of time as the fourth variable in the "space-time continuum". Norman 1513. -- LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928), Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955) & MINKOWSKI. Das Relativittsprinzip . Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1913. 8 o. Halftone frontispiece of portrait of Minkowski. Original tan printed wrappers (slight soiling, tiny losses to spine). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF A COLLECTION OF SEMINAL PAPERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIVITY PHYSICS, including Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Krper by Einstein and Raum und Zeit by Minkowski. Issued as Volume II of Fortschritte der Mathematischen Wissenschaften in Monographien , edited by Otto Blumenthal. Norman 1390.
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