BIB_ID
292041
Accession number
MA 4725.4
Creator
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Display Date
[1913 Aug.]
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Gift of Mr. Horace Wood Brock, Mr. John Biddle Brock, and Ms. Hope Brock Winthrop, in loving memory of their parents, Horace Brock (1918-1981) and Hope Distler Brock (1908-1988), 1991.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.1cm
Notes
Dated "mid-August, 1913" in Klein, p. 550.
Part of a collection of 25 letters from Albert Einstein to the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich. Letters are described individually in 25 catalog records (MA 4725.1-25).
Signed A. Einstein.
Part of a collection of 25 letters from Albert Einstein to the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich. Letters are described individually in 25 catalog records (MA 4725.1-25).
Signed A. Einstein.
Provenance
Mr. Horace Wood Brock, Mr. John Biddle Brock, and Ms. Hope Brock Winthrop.
Summary
Thanking Freundlich for his letter and research on light deflection (which Einstein notes is receiving broader interest), and assuming that Freundlich has received Einstein's new work. Mentioning that he considers Abraham's theory inconsistent. Stating that the theory of gravitation by Mie is fantastic and the theory by Nordström is very rational, and noting that the next solar eclipse will show which of the two theories is correct. With a postscript referring generally to a publication in an American journal that has been brought to his attention by the local astronomer.
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