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"EINSTEIN, ALBERT.
Zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.
Berlin, Gruyter & Co., 1923. 4to. Orig. orange printed wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus Sitzungsberichten...pp. 32-38. Fine fresh copy.
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First edition in the rare Offprint, stilled called ""Abdruck"". Weil No. 131.The early Offprints from ""Sitzungsberichten..."" are called ""Sonderabdruck"" up to Weil No.165 (including this). From Weil 166 they are called ""Sonderausgabe..."". - Before 161 (up to 160) the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination (the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical). From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - ( So Weil Nos 161-165 is still ""Abdruck"", but with separate title and pagination). These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies.
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Prinzipielles zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie" - [THE FIRST NAMING OF ""MACH'S PRINCIPLE]
(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers as extracted from ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Bd. 55, Heft 4. The whole number present, pp. (241)-336. Einsteins paper, pp. (241)-244.
First printing, the periodical form. Einstein believed, around 1918, ""in the relativity of inertia that in 1918 (in the paper offered) he stated as being on equal footing three principles on which a satisfactory theory of gravitation should rest: 1. The principle of relativity as expressed by general covarianc. 2. The principle of equivalence. 3. Mach's principle (the first time this term entered the literature): 'Das G-Feld ist 'restlos' durch die Massen der Körper bestimmt.', that is, the g.. are completely determined by the mass of bodies, more generally bu T..""(Pais, The Science of Albert Einstein, p.287). - Weil:96. - Boni: 100.
