Einstein manuscript sells for $13 million
The document is a 54-page manuscript.
AFP
A manuscript related to Albert Einstein, in which the famous physicist paved the theory of general relativity, was sold for a staggering amount of about 13 million dollars, during an auction held, the day before yesterday, in Paris.
The document, which was auctioned, was estimated to be worth between two and three million euros, but it sold for 11.6 million euros ($13.04 million) with expenses (10.2 million without expenses), and its rare nature is that it is a scientific working document, unlike the two documents that They held the previous two records.
The document is a 54-page manuscript written by the famous German physicist Einstein and his partner and friend, the Swiss engineer Michael Besseau, between 1913 and 1914, in Zurich, Switzerland.
“Scientific documents signed by Einstein from this era, and before 1919 in general, are very rare,” Christie’s explained before the auction it organized for Agut.
The offers started with one and a half million euros, and they soon increased, then the competition was limited to two bidders who participated over the phone, and each of them increased 200 thousand euros each time.
The nationality of the buyer is not yet known.
About 100 curious and collectors attended the auction, but none of them participated in the bidding.
After the special theory of relativity that made him prove, in 1905, the equation of mass and energy equivalence, Einstein began work in 1912 on the theory of general relativity.
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