Sur la Dynamique de l’Électron. Offprint from: Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, vol. 21, no. 1, December 1906

by Henri PoincarÉ

$38,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Palermo: Tipografia Matematica , 1906. First edition, extremely rare separately-paginated offprint, of this crucial paper in the development of the special theory of relativity, in which Poincaré showed that the Lorentz transformations form a group and that the Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetic theory is invariant under this ‘Lorentz group’ when augmented by space and time

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