Versuch einer Theorie der electrischen und optischen Erscheinungen in bewegten Körpern

by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

$5,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1895. First edition, the copy of The Garden Ltd., of Lorentz’s major work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies “which soon became a classic” Schaffner, p. 503 . It was in this work that he introduced the concept of ‘local time’, a “major discovery” Hoffmann, p. 86 , and the ‘length contraction hypothesis’, which together paved the way for the ‘Lorentz

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