RARE 1918 GERMAN PHYSICS PERIODICAL WITH EARLY CONTENT RELATED TO ALBERT EINSTEIN

Beiblätter zu den Annalen der Physik [Supplement to the Annals of Physics], Band 42, Heft 17 u. 18. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1918. Printed wraps, 8-3/4" x 5-3/4", approx. 36 pages.

The first article in the publication is a one-paragraph clarification or correction to Einstein's article "Eine Ableitung des Theorems von Jacobi [A Derivation of Jacobi's Theorem]" published in the previous year in Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte. That article was itself the second part to "Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity], in which Einstein laid out the theory for which he became best known—and, indeed, which overshadowed all of his discoveries to follow. His brief article in the present supplement makes multiple references to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation—the only formulation of mechanics in which the motion of a particle can be represented as a wave—which, as the field of quantum physics continued to grapple with Einstein's theory in the 1960s, in turn provided the germ for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Einstein equation.

Notes: Toning and a bit of edge wear to covers with a few tiny chips and tears (discreet archival reinforcement of tear to bottom margin of front cover); early library ink stamp at upper left; otherwise clean, tight, and near fine overall. A sound, attractive copy of this scarce, fragile publication

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