Bidders going to the auction in Paris are hoping to purchase a rare scientific manuscript that could offer a glimpse into the mind of a genius. The manuscript contains details of a key stage in the development of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The estimated worth of the document is between 2 million euros and 3 million euros.
According to Christie’s auction house, this is the most valuable Einstein manuscript to ever be auctioned. The manuscript is a total of 54-pages and will go on sale Tuesday. It was written jointly in Zurich by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Michele Besso. Besso is a Swiss engineer and Einstein’s collaborator, lifelong friend, and confidant.
The document contains 26 pages written by Einstein and 25 by Besso, as well as three pages of entries by both of them. For those reasons, it can be considered a valuable record of the relationship between Einstein and Besso. According to Christie’s, the document displays a “crucial stage in the development of the general theory of relativity, which reshaped the modern understanding of how the universe works.”
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