Auction Date:2014 Jan 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, blindstamped personal letterhead, Princeton, February 11, 1953. Einstein writes to Blanche H. Schlick, widow of Moritz Schlick. In full (translated): “You have given me great pleasure in sending along the Schlick-ean essay on social topics. He boldly told the truth about things that would otherwise be treated as taboo in our hypocritical world.” In fine to very fine condition, with unobtrusive intersecting folds and a censorship stamp to left blank area.
When the up-and-coming German philosopher Moritz Schlick published his Space and Time in Contemporary Physics in 1917—which he described as an ‘elucidation of the thesis that space and time have now forfeited all objectivity in physics’—he found an instant fan in Einstein. Touting the work as ‘masterly,’ Einstein recognized him as one of the first commentators to see that space and time have no existence or reality prior to the metric field, and the two began a correspondence that would last a lifetime. Securing the prestigious position as chair of Naturphilosophie at the University of Vienna in 1922 (with a recommendation from Einstein), Schlick surrounded himself with luminaries in philosophy, physics, and mathematics, heading the legendary Vienna Circle of thinkers, lecturing internationally, and publishing numerous influential essays. When he was assassinated by a former student on the steps of the university in 1936, the shaken intellectual world mourned the loss of one of the greatest minds of their time. Ensuring that her husband’s literary legacy would persevere, Blanche Hardy Schlick undertook the organization of his estate, editing and publishing past works, letters, and lectures, and sharing with the figures who helped shape his work. A heartfelt letter of praise for a fallen contemporary, who earned the legendary physicist’s admiration over decades of study.
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