First edition. 12mo. 121, [2], [2, publisher’s advertisements], [1] pp. Original quarter brown cloth with paper covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. A near fine copy. Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, 1927.
Reichenbach received a degree in philosophy from the University of Erlangen in 1915 and his Dr.Phil. dissertation on the theory of probability. Reichenbach was a significant member of the Vienna Circle, their manifesto listing 30 of Reichenbach’s publications in a bibliography of closely related authors. In 1930 he and Rudolf Carnap began editing the journal Erkenntnis. While Von Kopernikus bis Einstein. Der Wandel unseres Weltbildes Reichenbach certainly serves as an introduction to the problems of space and time it nevertheless highlights multiple philosophical issues of interest to the Vienna Circle arising from the role of sensory perception, the relevance of measurement and scientific data and the relationship and relevance of other scientific theories and their blending in developing new scientific theories.
