China News Service, September 23. According to the British "Guardian" report on the 21st, a series of key calculation manuscripts of the famous physicist Einstein will be auctioned, with an estimated value of up to 3 million euros.
This manuscript shows that while developing general relativity, Einstein racked his brains to explain the anomaly in Mercury's orbit.
Data map: In May 2021, a letter written by the world-famous physicist Einstein with his famous mass-energy equation was sold at the RR Auction in Boston for more than $1.2 million.
The French auction house Christie's and Agut auction house will auction the manuscript in Paris on November 23, with an estimated price of between 2 million and 3 million euros.
They stated that this manuscript recorded a key stage in the development of general relativity, "without a doubt it is the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever auctioned."
This manuscript was written by Einstein and his friend, collaborator, and Swiss engineer Michel Besso from June 1913 to early 1914. It has 54 pages. Einstein wrote 26 pages and Besso wrote 25 pages, two people wrote 3 pages together.
In the manuscript, they used the early version of the field equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity to solve the problem of Mercury's orbital anomaly that has plagued the scientific community for decades, and made a lot of corrections and deletions.
Besso took the manuscript with him when he left Zurich.
Christie’s auction house said: “Thanks to him, this manuscript came to us almost miraculously, because Einstein may not bother to save working papers.” This manuscript is the only two remaining records of the origin of general relativity. One of the works, plus a notebook from the end of 1912 to the beginning of 1913, is currently preserved in the Einstein Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Adrian Legendre of Christie’s auction house said: “Einstein’s autographs during this period and before 1919 are extremely rare.” “It gave us an extraordinary understanding of Einstein’s work and this In-depth study of the thoughts of the greatest scientist of the 20th century."