BIB_ID
336705
Accession number
MA 3648.12
Creator
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Display Date
[ca. 1949].
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph manuscript notes and short essays related to Albert Einstein's essay "Replies to Criticism" printed in P.A. Schilpp, ed., Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related catalog records for more information. The collection is housed with Einstein's Autobiographical notes (MA 3647), which was also printed in Schilpp.
Year and location of writing inferred from contents of the collection.
Year and location of writing inferred from contents of the collection.
Provenance
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1980.
Summary
Notes in response to Hans Reichenbach's essay "The philosophical significance of the theory of relativity" (printed in Schilpp), disagreeing that "the logical basis of the theory of relativity is the discovery that many statements ... are mere definitions."
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