The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta.
EINSTEIN, Albert & Infeld.
The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta.
First Edition of The Evolution of Physics; Inscribed by Albert Einstein in the Year of Publication
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938.
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First edition of this classic work, which traces the development of ideas in physics. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the second free endpaper, “For David Stern Albert Einstein 1938.” Fine in a near dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Trade editions signed by Einstein are scarce.
Upon publication The Saturday Review of Literature praised Evolution of Physics as "masterly Einstein and Infeld’s book should do much to spread an understanding and appreciation one of the great dramas in the evolution of human thought."
