Paris: A manuscript written together by Albert Einstein, offers a rare insight on the thought of legendary physicist who leads to the theory of relativity in general, sold in auction on Tuesday by 11.7 million euros ($ 13.17 million).
The House Christie’s auction has expected the text value between 2 million and 3 million euros.
54 pages of paper, about half full of Einstein’s handwriting, one of only two work documents known where thinkers approached their famous theory which lay the foundation for cosmology and modern technology such as GPS navigation.
They have been stored in the prisoners of the Swiss physicist Michele Besso, a close friend and Einstein academic partner, who jointly wrote work between 1913 and 1914.
“That also made it very important considering the documents that functioned by Einstein before 1919 were very rare, “Vincent Belloy said, an expert at Christie’s who hosted auction in Paris.
“Einstein is someone who saves very little note, so the fact that the script survives and makes the road leading to us has made it truly extraordinary,” he added.
Made mainly from endless calculations in black ink on wrinkled paper, minking lightly, the manuscript challenges the popular image of Einstein as an absolute genius, because it shows that even he – at least make a mistake.
“Einstein made a mistake in this script, and that I thought it made it bigger in a way, because we saw persistence, the thought that was in the process was built, which was corrected and directed,” said Belloy.
In May, Handwriting letters where Einstein said the famous E = MC² equation, part of the previous special relativity theory, sold with approximately one million euros in the United States, more than three estimates of prices.
With the general theory of general relativity published in 1915, Einstein revolutionized modern physics when he first described gravity as a geometric arch of space and time, the findings were still valid.
Christie did not reveal the name of the buyer.