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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 433 pages, ilustrated in b&w. "Volume I presents important new material on the young Einstein. Over half the documents made available here were discovered by the editors, including a significant group of over 50 letters that Einstein exhanged with Mileva Maric, his fellow student and future wife. These letters, together with over previously unpublished documents, provide an entirely new view of Einstien's youth." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Princeton University Press - Softback Preview. 1999 paperback. 21.5x13.5cm. 198 pages. Flat spine. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. Einstein′s Miraculous Years - Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics. Edited and introduced by John Stachel. Foreword by Roger Penrose.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Type: Book N.B.Slight fade mark to base of d/j spine and top right corner front d/j small closed tear.This volume, the first in a series, is intended for theoretical physicists and philosophers of science and is devoted to fundamental issues in the quantum domain. The book presents a number of discussions of experiments, theoretical puzzles and alternative interpretations, and philosophical treatments of the metaphysical foundations of science and the way in which these throw a scientific light on metaphysics. Hence the title, "Experimental Metaphysics", a term coined by Abner Shimony, to whom the book is dedicated. This collection of 16 scientific and philosophical essays by physicists, philosophers and historians of science deals with recent research and basic issues in quantum physics. 257pp.…