American Manuscripts & other Property from the Collection of Elsie and Philip Sang

American Manuscripts & other Property from the Collection of Elsie and Philip Sang

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ALBERT EINSTEIN | A cosmological aphorism signed by Albert Einstein

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

AUTOGRAPH APHORISM SIGNED AND DATED BY EINSTEIN: "ALBERT EINSTEIN 1936. MUNDUS VULT DECIPI."


Written on a small card (3 x 4 3/4 in.; 120 x 70 mm). Framed and glazed.


Einstein employed this Latin aphorism (which means, "the world want to be deceived") on several occasions, including in a presentation inscription to Hermann Struck in a copy of Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie Gemeinverständlich (Braunschweig, 1917).