FEYNMAN, Richard P.. Lectures On Gravitation. California Institute Of Technology Pasadena, California 1962-63. (c.1966 - APPARENT SECOND PRINTING?)

AUTHOR: FEYNMAN, Richard P. 

TITLE: Lectures On Gravitation. California Institute Of Technology Pasadena, California 1962-63.

PUBLISHER: n.p., n.d., (c.1966).

DESCRIPTION: APPARENT SECOND PRINTING?. 1 vol., 11" x 8-7/8", (i)154pp., lecture notes by Fernando B. Morinigo and William G. Wagner, typed title-page, text mimeographed printed on recto only, bound in full red buckram, vertical gilt lettered spine, binder ticket on the rear pastedown of "New Mexico Bookbinders - Albuquerque".

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 13 copies of the first edition located in OCLC. No copies located in RBH. We have able to locate only one copy of the first edition for sale in 2016 by a dealer in Denmark for $4,500.

Provenance: From the library of Charles Needham (Oct. 14, 1936 - Nov. 15, 2013). Needham held an M.S. in Astrophysics and is an ABD PhD in Astrophysics from the University of New Mexico. He was a Principal Physicist at Applied Research Associates, Inc. in Albuquerque, NM. He also worked as a Principal Physicist at Needham Consulting.

Feynman’s lectures on gravitation are famous for their highly original approach to general relativity. "In this tour de force, we get to look over the shoulder of one of the most brilliant physicists of all time as he reinvents the theory of gravitation, at a time when his goal was to produce a consistent and finite quantum theory of gravitation".