THE FIRST NAMING OF "MACH'S PRINCIPLE

EINSTEIN, ALBERT.

Prinzipielles zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie;

(Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1918). Without wrappers as extracted from "Annalen der Physik", Vierte Folge, Bd. 55, Heft 4. The whole number present, pp. (241)-336. Einsteins paper, pp. (241)-244.

First printing, the periodical form. Einstein believed, around 1918, "in the relativity of inertia that in 1918 (in the paper offered) he stated as being on equal footing three principles on which a satisfactory theory of gravitation should rest: 1. The principle of relativity as expressed by general covarianc. 2. The principle of equivalence. 3. Mach's principle (the first time this term entered the literature): 'Das G-Feld ist 'restlos' durch die Massen der Körper bestimmt.', that is, the g.. are completely determined by the mass of bodies, more generally bu T.."(Pais, The Science of Albert Einstein, p.287). - Weil:96. - Boni: 100.

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