Autograph scientific manuscript
$195,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books
ON THE ROAD TO RELATIVITY: A four-panel working bifolium from Einstein's early post-Minkowski tensor phase. A remarkable working sheet showing Einstein making tensor formalism physically operational for continuum mechanics. Across three working zones, the manuscript moves from a formal four-dimensional tensor transformation identity, written in a distinct unidentified hand, to Einstein’s own derivations involving Volumenkraft, Druckkraft, stress,
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