Includes: "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper." Pp. 891-921. Weil 9. * "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt." Pp. 132-148. Weil 6. * "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssig kieten suspendierten Teilchen." Pp. 549-560. Weil 8. Whole volume offered. viii, 1020 pp. With 5 plates. 8½x5½, period half cloth & boards, rebacked with original (faded) spine strip laid on, new endpapers. First printing of each paper.

Perhaps the single most important journal volume in the history of science and physics, containing three breakthrough papers by Albert Einstein. The volume includes the epochal first paper on special relativity; the Nobel prize award winning paper on the photon and the photoelectric effect; and the demonstration of the atom's existence through Brownian motion. Contemporary red pencil mathematical inscription on one leaf of the electrodynamic paper.