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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Large 8vo. [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [6], vi-viii, [3], 4-762, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Contemporary half black morocco over brown paper boards with gilt lettering in a gilt border on the spine; all edges black. Dark green endpapers and pastedowns. With a blue silk ribbon bookmark bound in. With 106 in-text figures. The second title page states that this is the first volume of the third part of a series, Die Kultur der Gegenwart Ihre Entwicklung und Ihre Ziele Herausgegebben von Paul Hinneberg. Dritter Teil Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften Medizin. Dritte Abteilung Anorganische Naturwissenschaften unter Lietung von E. Lecher [= Contemporary Culture . Part Three: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Medicine . ]. Boni 69-70. Schilpp 76-77. This volume is dedicated to topics within physics: light, mechanics, motion, electricity, and other areas of research are illuminated by papers from several of the twentieth century's pre-eminent physicists (including Einstein, Planck, Lorentz, among others). This book contains Einstein's "Theoretische Atomistik", and "Die Relativitätstheorie", published here for the first time in book form ( "Die Relativitätstheorie" first appeared as a journal article). A lovely example. A touch of fading to the boards' top edges, overall an exceptional copy.…