Auction Date:2010 Apr 14 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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,” on the correspondence side of a 5.5 x 3.5 postcard, September 20, 1921. Letter to Eberhard Zwirner (1899–1984), later a noted neurologist and phonometrician. In part: “Köhler borrows the Gestalt concept from physics and looks for analogies in the field of psychology. Physics, of course, is not helped by this analogy. Physics is wrestling with similar problems (quantum theory), but must, as I said, try to get ahead with its own methods.” A couple trivial brushes to signature, creases to lower right corner, and show-through from the Berlin postmark on reverse at top left, otherwise fine condition.
Einstein’s theories and Gestalt psychology were both developed during the same period, in the same environment, and share some of the same tenets—such as the entire universe and all things in it being interconnected. But, Einstein notes here, everything is not relative when it comes to comparing Gestalt psychology to physics. Although both may, on the surface, use similar methods to reach conclusions, Einstein believed that is where any similarity ended. From his viewpoint, psychology does not employ precise mathematical equations as does the physical sciences, thus forcing science to “try to get ahead with its own methods.” Deep thoughts, from one of the world’s greatest thinkers. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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