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Leipzig 1909. In Physikalischer Zeitschrift, Jahrgang 10, 1909, pages 104-111. The complete year. Thick 4to. Black cloth with black leather spine and tips. Minkowski article appears In issue No. 3 for February 1st, 1909, the first complete version of Minkowski's famous paper wherein he introduces the concept of the space-time continuum (time as a fourth dimension). A major event in modern physics. Old German institute date and stamp on end paper - no other owner marks. VG++. Excellent condition. Binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean. Pictures available on request. .
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Leipzig: Teubner, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärtze, vol. 80, part II, pp. 4-9. Versammlung zu Cöln. 20.-26. September 1908. Leipzig: Verlag von F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. 4to (240 x 167 mm). Parts I, II/i-ii and 'Geschäfts-Bericht' bound in single volume. 124, [2], [4], 246; x, [2], 218; xxi [1], 595, [3] pp. Contemporary library cloth with handwritten paper label, sprinkled edges (wear to extremities, spine creased, corners scuffed, binding a bit weak with few pages working loose). In modern cloth protective case with morocco spine label. Light marginal browning, but generally clean and bright throughout. The whole volume is offered. ----
RARE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST APPEARANCE. In this paper 'Space and Time,' read by Minkowski in Cologne only a few days before his death, he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the relativity theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional space-time continuum. . . Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time itself 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 paper was first published here (pp.4-9 of part II, i of the Verhandlungen) and was then reprinted in Jahrsbericht der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, vol. XVIII (1909). Following Minkowski's unexpected death in 1909, an offprint from the Jahrsberichts was commissioned as a tribute.
References: PMM 401 (Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung issue); DSB IX, 414; Norman 1514 (offprint). - visit our website to see more images!
RARE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST APPEARANCE. In this paper 'Space and Time,' read by Minkowski in Cologne only a few days before his death, he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the relativity theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski's hypothesis is the four-dimensional space-time continuum. . . Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time itself 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 paper was first published here (pp.4-9 of part II, i of the Verhandlungen) and was then reprinted in Jahrsbericht der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, vol. XVIII (1909). Following Minkowski's unexpected death in 1909, an offprint from the Jahrsberichts was commissioned as a tribute.
References: PMM 401 (Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung issue); DSB IX, 414; Norman 1514 (offprint). - visit our website to see more images!
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1909. Physik. Zschr., 10. - Leipzig, Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1909, 4°, XXII, (2), 1040 pp., mit Textabbildungen und 26 Tafeln, Halbleinenband d.Zt.; St.a.Tit., feines Expl. First edition of this milestone paper where Minkowski was the first to conceive that the relativity principle formulated by Lorentz and Einstein led to the abandonment of the concept of space and time as separate entities and to their replacement by a four dimensional "space-time", THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. In the opening passage Minkowski declared: "Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fadeaway in the shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality." The work was simultaneously published in "Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung". Leipzig 1909, in "Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte". Leipzig, 1909 (a shorter version) and as here. The paper was read 20th of September 1908 at a Conference in Cologne only a few months before…
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Raum und Zeit [Space and Time], Leipzig: Vogel, 1909 [BOUND VOLUME, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACETIME HYPOTHESIS]
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Leipzig: F.W. Vogel, 1909. 1st Edition. Bound first edition of the FIRST PUBLISHED ACCCOUNT OF MINKOWSKI'S SPACETIME HYPOTHESIS "THE NOTION THAT MADE POSSIBLE THE EXPANSION OF THE RELATIVITY THEORY OF EINSTEIN FROM ITS SPECIFIC (1905) TO ITS GENERAL FORM (1916). "The laws of physics were written in the language of the geometry of this four dimensional space ... Physics had become geometry, and it was a stunning achievement" (Gerber, The Language of Physics, pp. 358). Minkowski's hypothesis was first presented as a lecture in Cologne on his theory of four-dimensional spacetime, with this text of the lecture published the following year. "Raum und Zeit" was first published in this 1909 printing of Verhandlunge of the Deutscher Naturforscher und Aertze, 80 Versammlung zu Cöln. 20. - 28. September 1908. Any printing other than this Leipzig: Vogel publication (as offered here) is not the true first publication. The paper was also later reprinted in Jahresbericht der Deutschen. "Minkowski's space-time…
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1909. Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel, 1909. Lex8vo. Contemp. Hcloth. Gilt spine. Edges slightly rubbed. Clean and fine. in "Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 80. Vesammlung zu Cöln 20.- 26. September 1908. Herausgegeben...Albert Wangerin. Zweiter Theil. 1. Hälfte. Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilungen". pp. 4-9. The whole volume offered with part I-II: (4),245,X,(2),598,124,(2) pp. First appearance of this milestone paper in the development of the theory of Special relativity. The paper offered is the first edition, first printing of the text from Minkowski's famous address held at the 80th meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, in Köln the 21st September 1908. There exists three other printings of this address from the same year:1. Physikalische Zeitschrift, volume 10, number 3 (1. February, 1909.), pp.104-111; 2. Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, volume 18, number 2 (issued monthly - so February), pp.75-88;3. (Seperate edition…
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Leipzig and Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1909. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Very Good+. 8vo. [5], 2-14, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Minkowski with tissue guard. Original tan wrappers with Minkowki's name and the title inset on the front wrapper. Clamshell case with brown linen on the boards and with brown calf, five raised bands, and gilt rules and lettering on the spine. Minkowski's name and the title in elaborate script in a cloth oval onlay to the front board of the case replicating the design on the front wrapper. Printing and the Mind of Man, 401. The first separate edition of Minkowski's classic paper in which he first described what is now referred to as Minkowski spacetime, a mathematical structure consisting of the set of all real 4-tuples and an ordering relation that determines the past and future light cones of each point in the structure. The paper was first published in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (Annual Report of the German…
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