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Lot 91
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to Kenneth Heuer, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 20 October 1952.
Closed11 July 2018
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GBP 8,125
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to Kenneth Heuer, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 20 October 1952.
In English, one page, 280 x 215mm, blind-stamped address at upper margin.
On the interstellar origins of life, and the possibility that the heavier metals on earth may have been brought by meteors. Einstein disclaims any ability to judge a proposed work by the recipient about 'the cause of the uneven distribution of the heavier metals on the surface of our planet. The uneven distribution could be explained only by the assumption that those masses came to the earth as big meteors. In this case it seems doubtful how the thin crust could stand such shock. If not I cannot understand why those metallic masses should be found on the surface or near the surface'; geologists are better-placed to evaluate such claims than he, however. He goes on 'Arhennius' [sic] hypothesis about the interstellar traffic of life seems to me very improbable'.
The Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was one of the proponents of the 'panspermia' hypothesis, that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by bodies such as comets and meteors. The recipient was the author of a number of speculative works on the origins and fate of the world.
In English, one page, 280 x 215mm, blind-stamped address at upper margin.
On the interstellar origins of life, and the possibility that the heavier metals on earth may have been brought by meteors. Einstein disclaims any ability to judge a proposed work by the recipient about 'the cause of the uneven distribution of the heavier metals on the surface of our planet. The uneven distribution could be explained only by the assumption that those masses came to the earth as big meteors. In this case it seems doubtful how the thin crust could stand such shock. If not I cannot understand why those metallic masses should be found on the surface or near the surface'; geologists are better-placed to evaluate such claims than he, however. He goes on 'Arhennius' [sic] hypothesis about the interstellar traffic of life seems to me very improbable'.
The Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was one of the proponents of the 'panspermia' hypothesis, that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by bodies such as comets and meteors. The recipient was the author of a number of speculative works on the origins and fate of the world.
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ('A. Einstein') to Kenneth Heuer, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, 20 October 1952.
In English, one page, 280 x 215mm, blind-stamped address at upper margin.
On the interstellar origins of life, and the possibility that the heavier metals on earth may have been brought by meteors. Einstein disclaims any ability to judge a proposed work by the recipient about 'the cause of the uneven distribution of the heavier metals on the surface of our planet. The uneven distribution could be explained only by the assumption that those masses came to the earth as big meteors. In this case it seems doubtful how the thin crust could stand such shock. If not I cannot understand why those metallic masses should be found on the surface or near the surface'; geologists are better-placed to evaluate such claims than he, however. He goes on 'Arhennius' [sic] hypothesis about the interstellar traffic of life seems to me very improbable'.
The Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was one of the proponents of the 'panspermia' hypothesis, that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by bodies such as comets and meteors. The recipient was the author of a number of speculative works on the origins and fate of the world.
In English, one page, 280 x 215mm, blind-stamped address at upper margin.
On the interstellar origins of life, and the possibility that the heavier metals on earth may have been brought by meteors. Einstein disclaims any ability to judge a proposed work by the recipient about 'the cause of the uneven distribution of the heavier metals on the surface of our planet. The uneven distribution could be explained only by the assumption that those masses came to the earth as big meteors. In this case it seems doubtful how the thin crust could stand such shock. If not I cannot understand why those metallic masses should be found on the surface or near the surface'; geologists are better-placed to evaluate such claims than he, however. He goes on 'Arhennius' [sic] hypothesis about the interstellar traffic of life seems to me very improbable'.
The Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was one of the proponents of the 'panspermia' hypothesis, that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed by bodies such as comets and meteors. The recipient was the author of a number of speculative works on the origins and fate of the world.
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