Physics for Sale: Collectors snap up pricey historical materials

Want a glimpse of Albert Einstein’s mind at work? Last week, it cost a buyer $559,500.

PRICEY PAPERS. A scrap of an Isaac Newton manuscript (above) and a page of the Einstein-Besso manuscript (below). Christie’s New York

Christie’s New York

An unprecedented sale of manuscripts, books, and reports documenting the development of modern physics took place at Christie’s auction house in New York on Oct.