INFELD, LEOPOLD. 1898-1968. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. Cambridge: University Press, 1938. 8vo. Original blue cloth, publisher's dust-jacket, browning to spine ends of cloth, some wear to corners, chipping to paper inside rear hinge, minor chipping to jacket, price-clipped. Provenance: Dr. Leonard George Rowntree (1883-1959; presentation inscription from Einstein). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN TO DR. ROWNTREE, of Einstein and Infeld's personal account of the journey to Einstein's theory of relativity. Dr. Leonard Rowntree joined Dr. John J. Abel at Johns Hopkins University in 1907, and in 1912 they developed the first artificial kidney, in the form of the dialysis machine. Rowntree would later move to the Mayo Clinic and is widely credited with creating the research tradition there.
INFELD, LEOPOLD. 1898-1968. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. Cambridge: University Press, 1938. 8vo. Original blue cloth, publisher's dust-jacket, browning to spine ends of cloth, some wear to corners, chipping to paper inside rear hinge, minor chipping to jacket, price-clipped. Provenance: Dr. Leonard George Rowntree (1883-1959; presentation inscription from Einstein). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN TO DR. ROWNTREE, of Einstein and Infeld's personal account of the journey to Einstein's theory of relativity. Dr. Leonard Rowntree joined Dr. John J. Abel at Johns Hopkins University in 1907, and in 1912 they developed the first artificial kidney, in the form of the dialysis machine. Rowntree would later move to the Mayo Clinic and is widely credited with creating the research tradition there.
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