A handwritten copy of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity notes was sold for millions at Christie’s auction house in Paris, France, on Tuesday.
The 54-page document by Einstein and his friend Michele Besso, a Swiss engineer, sold for more than 13.3 million euros (over $15 million) after it was projected to sell for between $2.4 million and $3.5 million, according to ABC News. It is one of only two copies in existence.
“This is without a doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever to come to auction,” Christie’s said in a statement.
The buyer, who made the bid by phone, remains anonymous.
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The document, written by Einstein and Besso between June 1913 and the beginning of 1914, is not the final copy of the notes, according to the report.
Included in the manuscript are 26 pages written by Einstein, 25 pages by Besso, and three pages that appear to have been co-written.
The notes contain mistakes, but the report says they led to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as a property of space and time. Objects with mass cause a curvature in the fabric of space-time. The more massive the object, the greater the curvature. That curvature, according to Einstein, is gravity.
“Even today, in 2021, when we study cosmology, or even when we study fusions of black holes, gravitational waves, pulsars, we still use Einstein’s equations,” Etienne Klein, a French astrophysicist, said in a video from the auction house regarding the manuscript notes.
“Over a century after being laid down on paper by Einstein, they are still the right equations for describing any gravitational phenomenon,” Klein continued.
NEW: A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for 10.2 million euros (almost $11.5 million)—beating all predictions. https://t.co/GMwhQ51trN
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The final copy of the theory of relativity was published a year later in 1915.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Christie’s for a statement.
