THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS BY ALBERT EINSTEIN & LEOPOLD INFELD 1938 FIRST EDITION

[EINSTEIN, ALBERT; INFELD, LEOPOLD]. The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from the Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1938.

FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (19.5 x 13 x 2.5 cm); pp. x, 319. English text. Bound in publisher's blue covers; supplied in the original dust jacket; diagrams throughout; rear index in double columns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure, and square. Covers and contents largely very clean. Dust jacket neatly price-clipped, with some light rubbing to the spine tips. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.

Notes: An excellent, first edition copy of this seminal popular science book written by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. It traces the historical progression of physical theories from classical mechanics to modern relativity and quantum mechanics.