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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955).  A group of offprints. FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. 
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955).  A group of offprints, comprising:
 
"Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. [Parts I and II]." Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse, VI. Berlin: Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1927.
 
2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (255 x 184 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (minor creasing). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Theodor Kaluza (1885-1954) published a paper in 1921 where he linked gravitation and electromagnetism using Einstein’s gravitation equations for 5 dimensions, instead of 4. In February 1927, Einstein published these “papers on the five-dimensional theory are two short communications” where “his improved treatment [of the Kaluza theory] turns out to be identical with the work of Klein” (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 344, 333).
 
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EINSTEIN. Walther MAYER (1887-1948). "Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität." [With:] "Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizitat. Zweite Abhandlung." Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse. XXV, XII. 25 (1931) [Part I] and 12 (1932) [Part II]. Berlin: Der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1931-1932. 
 
2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (258 x 182 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (browning, brittle, some annotations). FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. “In 1931 Einstein and Walter Mayer reformulated Kaluza’s 5-dimensional [unified field] theory retaining a 4-dimensional space-time” (Norman 701).
 
Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
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