The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning a book that has remained a definitive introduction to physics for decades. 'The whole thing was basically an experiment,' Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures.

Exceptionally rare and desirable, only a handful or inscribed copies of Feynman’s Lectures On Physics are known to exist. An active figure in the Freethought movement, Seckel co-designed the “Darwin fish” logo in response to the proliferation of “Jesus fish” logos used on bumper stickers and t-shirts.

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the volume one, “May 5, 1982, To my friend, Al Seckel.” The recipient, Alfred Paul Seckel, authored several books on the nature of illusion and perception and edited two of Bertrand Russell’s works. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company for California Institute of Technology, 1975-76.Įarly printings of each volume of one of the greatest physics books ever written.

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