[Science] Minkowski, Herman. Raum und Zeit; Vortrag, Gehalten auf der 80. Naturforsher-Versammlung. Truebner, Berlin, 1909.Tall slim 8vo. Photographic frontispiece plate, [3], 14 pp., [1 publisher's advertisement for Minkowski's Geometrie der Zahlen]. Original paper wraps with panel engraved title on upper cover inside a pamphlet binder. First separate edition, being an offprint from: Jahresbericht der Deutschen. Signature of Henry Crew / 18 July 1910" in ink at top corner of upper cover. Henry Crew (1859 -1953) was an American Physicist and Astronomer who received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. He was a prolific writer on physics. of the text otherwise clean.Minkowski's hypothesis was first presented as a lecture in Cologne on his theory of four-dimensional spacetime, with this text of the lecture published the following year. "Raum und Zeit" was first published in this 1909 printing of Verhandlunge of the Deutscher Naturforscher und Aertze, 80 Versammlung zu C?ln. 20. - 28. September 1908. "The impact of Minkowski's ideas on the twentieth century physics has been so immense that one cannot imagine modern physics without the notion of spacetime.It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that spacetime has been the greatest discovery in physics of all times." (Petkov, Space, Time, and Spacetime, p. v). At the beginning of his (Einstein's) 1916 paper on general relativity Einstein wrote: "The generalization of the theory of relativity has been facilitated considerably by Minkowski, a mathematician who was the first one to recognize the formal equivalence of space coordinates and the time coordinate, and utilize this in the construction of the theory." Frontis loose. Contemporary pencil notations on several pages

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