Whittaker, E.T. The Beginning and End of the World. Oxford University Press, 1943. 64pp. Very nice copy in stiff wrappers. Unopened. $35 Interesting work by the mathematician Whittaker who is best remembered by me for lumping Einstein into the "other" category in the discussion of Poincare/Lorentz relativity theory in his second edition of this history of the aether book.
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